The defendant appealed his sentence for assault.
Held: The was an incident of road rage. There were considerable mitigating factors, and the sentence would be reduced to six weeks, but immediate imprisonment will normally follow an assault occasioning actual bodily harm in the context of a road rage confrontation.
Rose LJ, Gross, Pitchers JJ
Times 21-Jul-2003
Offences Against the Persons Act 1892
England and Wales
Updated: 12 July 2021; Ref: scu.184726