The defendant appealed against his sentence to three year’s imprisonment after pleading guilty to assault within a domestic context.
Held: The sentence (equivalent to four an a half years after a trial) was upheld.
Citations:
[2001] 1 Cr App R(S) 36
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Attorney General’s Reference No 87 of 2006, Regina v Daniel Peter Geddes CACD 24-Oct-2006
The Crown was given leave to appeal what it saw to be an unduly lenient sentence of the defendant following his becoming liable to be sentenced as a repeat offender iunder the 2003 Act. The main offence was that he had threatened his partner’s life . .
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Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 10 May 2022; Ref: scu.247632