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Court of Appeal allows appeal against the severity of sentence of two years' imprisonment imposed for robbery involving an assault on a homeless man, and substitutes a sentence of five years' imprisonment with the final four years suspended, on the grounds that the sentencing judge erred in failing to structure the sentence to facilitate and encourage rehabilitation.
Criminal law – sentencing – appeal against the severity of two years' imprisonment imposed for robbery – s. 14 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud) Offences Act 2001 – appellant’s efforts to rehabilitate himself – sentencing judge erred in failing to structure the sentence to facilitate and encourage rehabilitation – five years' imprisonment with the final four years suspended substituted – appeal allowed.
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