The Attorney-General sought to refer the defendant’s sentence of a three yer community service order with supervision for five charges of gross indecency with a child as unduly lenient.
Held: The offender had abused a position of trust. The defendant was now 81, and the offences had occurred some many years ago. He had been frank and genuinely remorseful. The sentencing decision was well within the proper ambit of the judge’s discretion.
Judges:
Sir Igor Judge P, Holland J, Goldring J
Citations:
Times 03-Nov-2006
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Attorney-General’s Reference (No 4 of 1989) CACD 1990
The court considered the approach to be taken by an appellate court asked to review a sentence said to be unduly lenient: ‘The first thing to be observed is that it is implicit in the section that this Court may only increase sentences which it . .
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Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 15 August 2022; Ref: scu.246713