The defendant appealed sentences of 7 years for indecent assaults on young girls. He was a policeman running a youth club. Certain of the allegations related to times when the maximum sentence was two years, but the defendant’s pleas specifically related to events after the new provisions.
Held: The offence of indecent assault is an offence under the 1992 Act, and it is a criminal offence to publish the name of a victim. As a matter of practice, no count should ever charge an offence committed during a period running through September 16th 1985 when the change took place. In this cases while the offences were serious, they were not the most serious, and a sentence of five years was substituted.
Citations:
[1997] EWCA Crim 2677, [1998] 1 Cr App R (S) 434
Statutes:
Sexual Offences Act 1956 14(1), Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 1
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v Hobbs, Hobbs, Hobbs, Charge CACD 14-Feb-2002
The defendants appealed sentences of 7.5 and 3 years for conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration. They had hired lorries with a view to bringing people in It was submitted that the sentences were outside the powers under the Act. The sentence . .
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