Application for leave to appeal against sentence to imprisonment for public protection with a minimum term of five years, having pleaded guilty to several offences including some for serious violence.
Held: ‘This is just the sort of case for which an IPP sentence was designed and is best suited. Just precisely so that an assessment can be made of his continuing dangerousness, or otherwise, at a time when his possible release into the community is closer in time. ‘ The judge had however erred in technical aspects of the pronouncement of the sentence. Also the totality remained severe: ‘for the totality of this offending, after contested trials a total sentence of 12 years would have been a justified starting point, and after early pleas a total of some eight years. That is the basis for the decision of this court to reduce the minimum period from five years’
Smith DBE LJ, David Clarke , Chapman HHJ
[2006] EWCA Crim 3362
Bailii
England and Wales
Updated: 03 August 2021; Ref: scu.278943