The defendant appealed his total sentence of 32 months imprisonment following conviction for outraging public decency. He had stood naked from the waist down in a public place and been seen by children.
Held: Though a sentence of imprisonment was appropriate, and the consecutive sentences were appropriate the total sentence was too long. The sentence for actual indecemcy with a child of the age involved would have been two years. An appropriate total in this case was twenty months.
Citations:
[1997] EWCA Crim 463
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 08 October 2022; Ref: scu.149918