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The Court of Appeal has upheld concurrent eight-and-a-half-year sentences imposed by the Special Criminal Court on a repeat offender for a series of crimes including robbery of a bookmakers, false imprisonment of a woman in her car, and firearms offences, to run consecutively to a prior 9-year sentence. The Court of Appeal found no error in the Special Criminal Court's application of consecutive sentencing or its consideration of the totality principle, affirming that the sentences imposed were proportionate to the gravity of the offences and the offender's criminal history.
Court of Appeal, Special Criminal Court, robbery, false imprisonment, firearms offenses, Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud) Offences Act 2001, Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997, Firearms Act 1964, Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act 1976, consecutive sentencing, totality principle, proportionality, repeat offender, victim impact statement, mitigation, aggravating factors, headline sentence, rehabilitation.
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