Regina v R (Informer: Reduction of Sentence): CACD 28 Jan 2002

After conviction, but before sentence, the defendant had co-operated with the police in providing information about crimes other than the one for which he had been convicted. Further information had been given after he had been sentenced. He complained that insufficient sentencing discount had been applied to recognise this.
Held: R v A and B applied, but did not quite cater for this exact case. If there was to be any extension, it must not counter the principles in that case, even though some flexibility was needed. Provided he had pleaded guilty, significant information given about the others offences given after sentence, could be taken account of by the Court of Appeal. Information given after sentence must generate a smaller discount than information provided before sentence.

Judges:

Woolf LCJ, Mitchell Keith JJ

Citations:

Times 18-Feb-2002

Citing:

AppliedRegina v A and B CACD 1999
Lord Bingham CJ discussed the effect on sentence of the defendant having provided information of assistance to the police: ‘If the information given is accurate, particularised, useful in practice, and hitherto unknown to the authorities, enabling . .
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