The fact that a defendant had, at the time of committing an offence, been suffering from an acute mental illness, was not sufficient reason to count as an exceptional reason allowing a judge not to pass a life sentence for a second serious offence. The case should be looked at in the light of section 2, and the purpose of the Act. Attempted robbery was not a serious offence within the Act but a firearms offence involving an imitation firearm was.
Times 03-Feb-2000, [2000] 1 WLR 1262, [2000] EWCA Crim 1, [2000] 1 All ER 907, [2000] 2 Cr App Rep (S) 217, [2000] Crim LR 307, [2000] 1 Cr App Rep 471
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Cited – S, Regina v CACD 25-Feb-2002
Appeal against sentence for rape, as the result of a reference by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Life sentence imposed because of historic serious violence. The court was asked what were ‘exceptional circumstances’ so as to allow a non-life . .
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