A sentence of ten years’ imprisonment for robbery of an off-licence by a man armed with an air pistol was reduced to seven years. The defendant had plead guilty but the facts were serious. The court said: ‘for an offence of this kind a period of six to eight years’ on a plea of guilty is the normal range of sentence for a crime in which a firearm or other weapon is used, and where otherwise there is a mixture of mitigating and aggravating features but also an absence of the full range or more serious aspects of aggravating features which can occur in cases of this kind.’
Citations:
[2003] EWCA Crim 850
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Cited – Attorney Genera;’s Reference No 46, 47 and 48 of 2009 CACD 19-Nov-2009
The A-G complaned that sentences imposed for robbery of a newsagent using an imitation firearm were unduly lenient.
Held: The sentences were variously upheld and reduced according to the circumstances identified as important by reference to . .
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Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.514430