The defendant sought leave to appeal against sentence of four years for conspitracy to cause a public nuisance having pleaded guilty. He had planned to turn off the floodlights at a Premier Division football match between Charlton Athletic and Liverpool in order to make a fraudulent gain for a group of Far Eastern bookmakers. The plan, if implemented, would have plunged those attending the match, a crowd of many thousands, into darkness, and prevented them seeing the match they had paid to see.
Held: Leave was refused.
Citations:
[2001] 1 Cr App R(S) 404
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v Rimmington; Regina v Goldstein HL 21-Jul-2005
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