‘The applicants were all convicted on 14 May 2013 of grave offences of sexual assault of young girls in what has been called in the media the ‘Oxford grooming trial’. They all received life sentences with minimum terms reflecting very substantial notional determinate terms and concurrent determinate terms. One applicant wishes to appeal against conviction and another wishes to appeal against the life sentence, but the main issue raised in this appeal is the appropriate length of the notional determinate terms imposed.’
Hallett LJ, Saunders, McGowan JJ
[2015] EWCA Crim 850
Bailii
England and Wales
Criminal Sentencing
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