The defendant had been sentenced to three years for acts tending to pervert the course of justice. The court was asked as to the extent to which a judge may take into account in sentence matters of evidence in a trial which tend to aggravate the offence but which comprise behaviour which could have been (but was not) charged as a separate offence and which is disputed by the offender.
[2009] EWCA Crim 389, [2010] 1 Cr App R (S) 1, [2009] Crim LR 744
Bailii
England and Wales
Updated: 23 June 2021; Ref: scu.396420