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Court of Appeal allows appeal against the severity of sentence of 12 years’ imprisonment with the final three suspended imposed for an unprovoked assault causing serious harm, and substitutes a sentence of seven and a half years with four and a half suspended, on the grounds that there was an error in principle in the approach that the sentencing judge took in that he did not distinguish between what he allowed for the various mitigating factors.
Criminal law – sentencing – appeal against the severity of 12 years’ imprisonment with the final three suspended imposed for assault causing serious harm – s. 4 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 – unprovoked attack – an error in principle in the approach that the sentencing judge took – sentence quashed – sentence of seven and a half years with four and a half suspended substituted – appeal allowed.
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