The defendant appealed a sentence of 3.5 years imprisonment for breach of an anti-social behaviour order.
Held: The sentence stood. What the offender might have considered trivial represented repeated breaches of an ASBO that had caused real concern and distress
Judges:
Hooper LJ, Leveson J, Mettyear Judge
Citations:
[2004] EWCA Crim 1374, [2005] 1 Cr App R (S) 167
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Preferred – Lamb, Regina v CACD 10-Nov-2005
The defendant appealed against a sentence imposed for breach of an Anti-Social behaviour Order.
Held: Where a community penalty was available for such a breach the court should be considered in an attempt to help the defendant to learn to live . .
Cited – Regina v Stevens and Lovegrove CACD 2-Feb-2006
The defendant appealed his sentence for breach of an anti-social behaviour order.
Held: The breach of an order was separate stand-alone offence for which the maximum penalty was five years imprisonment. It was not wrong in principle to impose . .
Cited – Regina v Lamb CACD 2005
The court heard an appeal against sentence for breach of an anti-social behaviour order, and considered the sentence in Braxton: ‘The vital distinction between that case and the circumstances with which we are concerned is that albeit the deliberate . .
Cited – Steven Fenton v Regina CACD 19-Sep-2006
The defendant had been convicted of breaching his sex offender’s order. He appealed his sentence of 2.5 years. The order had included a prohibition on being drunk in a public place and using abusive or insulting behaviour toward a female.
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Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 30 June 2022; Ref: scu.226761