Sentence for sexual offences was not unduly severe

Court of Appeal dismisses appeal against severity of sentence for sexual offences, where: (a) the imposition of a headline sentence for indecent assault towards the top end of the range was appropriate where there had been numerous instances of the offending conduct as part of a protracted campaign of serious abuse and caused the main complainant profound and lasting psychological and emotional damage; (b) the single count of sexual assault against a different complainant was also appropriately viewed as towards the upper end of the scale where it was a sexual assault of a young girl in her early teenage years in breach of trust by a perpetrator who was much older than his victim; and (c) the sentencing judge would have been entitled to structure the sentence differently and to have imposed consecutive sentences and where he did not, it was appropriate that the longest of the concurrent sentences represented the gravity of the offending conduct.