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The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision, imposing an eight-year prison sentence with one year suspended for a man convicted of rape. The appellant argued that the sentence was excessive and disproportionate, particularly considering the single incident of offending, his age of 18 at the time of the offence in 2013, and mitigating factors such as his guilty plea and lack of prior convictions. However, the Court of Appeal found no error in principle with the original sentence, which was deemed proportionate to the gravity of the offence and the harm caused to the victim.
Court of Appeal, rape, excessive sentence, mitigation, guilty plea, proportionality, headline sentence, suspension of sentence, victim impact statement, psychological report, reoffending risk, remorse, Criminal Justice Act 1999, DPP v. F.E, DPP v. Faulkner, intoxication, vulnerability, predatory behavior, proportionality principle.
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