Appellant’s age requires lengthy sentence for sexual offences to be somewhat reduced

Court of Appeal allows appeal against severity of sentence for sexual offences and varies the sentence from 20 years in aggregate with no part suspended to 20 years with the final two and a half years suspended unconditionally, on the grounds that the appellant was 68 at the time of sentencing and, as the nature of the offending was such that a very lengthy sentence had to be considered, the age of the appellant ought to have been afforded specific weight where the sentence was likely to see the appellant serving all or the greater part of whatever life he has remaining in custody.