The defendant appealed her conviction for murder as aider and abettor, and the crown appealed against her sentence of 3 years.
Held: The criticisms of the trial were not established. The defendant’s appeal failed. The judge had failed to indicate the starting point he had used. The approach of a court to a sentence of life imprisonment for murder whether the offender is a principal or a secondary party is governed by the provisions of Schedule 21 of the 2003 Act. The minimum appropriate sentence was ten years.
[2008] EWCA Crim 2936, [2009] 2 Cr App Rep (S) 41, [2009] 3 All ER 839
Bailii
Criminal Justice Act 2003 269(5) 270
England and Wales
Citing:
Applied – Height and Anderson, Regina v CACD 29-Oct-2008
The appellants had been convicted of a murder. They appealed against the minumum sentences as set, saying that the application of the 2003 Act produced an unfair result. The murder was of the wife of the second defendant who paid the first to . .
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Updated: 02 November 2021; Ref: scu.278529