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Court of Appeal allows appeal against the severity of sentence of four years and six months' imprisonment imposed for historic sexual assault, and reduces the sentence to three years and nine months' imprisonment, on the grounds that insufficient allowance was provided for the particularly valuable guilty plea, and to that limited extent, an error in principle was established.
Criminal law – sentencing – appeal against the severity of four years and six months imposed for sexual assault – s. 2 of the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act 1990 as amended by s. 37 of the Sex Offenders Act 2001 – whether or not sufficient credit was given for the early guilty plea – insufficient allowance was provided for the particularly valuable guilty plea, and to this limited extent, an error in principle has been established – appropriate sentence is three years and nine months imprisonment – appeal allowed.
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