The court considered sentencing for manslaughter where, following an argument, the deceased was struck with a clenched fist in the middle of his face and was knocked over, so that his head struck the kerbstone and his skull was fractured with fatal results.
Held: Watkins LJ said ‘If one were to look at the matter from the point of view of the victim and his family, the temptation would be to sentence the person responsible for such a thing to imprisonment for a number of years. But this Court has said that that is not the way to look at the matter. Justice is not seen to be done in that way’.
Judges:
Watkins LJ
Citations:
Unreported – August 12 1991
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Appleby, Regina v (Attorney-General’s Reference (No 60 of 2009) CACD 18-Dec-2009
Each defendant had been convicted of an assault resulting in a death, but where no weapon had been used and where but for the death the charge would have been assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Held: The decision in Furby, while still . .
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Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.384383