Director of Public Prosecutions v McCabe: 1993

The defendant had 76 library books at his home which he had taken from one or more of the 32 different branches of a county library. He was convicted of a single offence of theft in relation to those books.

Citations:

[1993] 157 JP 443

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedTovey and Another v Regina CACD 9-Mar-2005
Each defendant appealed sentences where he had committed a series of offences and the sentence had been for specimen acts.
Held: When choosing representative offences a prosecutor should be careful to try to give the court a proper picture of . .
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Crime

Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.224234