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Court of Appeal allows appeal brought by Director of Public Prosecutions of unduly lenient sentences imposed for two separate assaults (one during the course of a robbery and both involving the use of a weapon) and substitutes a total sentence of seven years with the final eighteen months suspended, on the ground that aggregate effect of the original sentence failed to reflect the gravity of the offending behaviour.
Criminal law – sentencing – appeal against sentences imposed for a separate assault and robbery amounting to a total of five years imprisonment with the final two years suspended – undue leniency – Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 – use of a weapon in both incidents – whether the judge had failed to have full regard to the extent of the trauma sustained and the lasting effect that these attacks have had on the victims – aggregate effect of sentence fails to reflect the gravity of the offending behaviour – sentence of seven years with the final eighteen months substituted – appeal allowed.
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