There is no power to impose a detention and training sentence to run consecutive to a detention order which been made on a previous occasion. In this case, the result was that it was appropriate to impose a custodial sentence or no separate penalty, but the reserves of that was in turn to create an inequality in sentence between the two defendants. Accordingly the first was quashed and the second reduced.
Citations:
Times 09-Jan-2001, Gazette 25-Jan-2001
Statutes:
Crime and Disorder Act 1998 73, Children and Young Persons Act 1933 53(2)
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 23 May 2022; Ref: scu.86834