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The Court of Appeal has quashed the original sentences for a series of domestic violence and intimidation offences, deeming them unduly lenient. The original court had sentenced the defendant to concurrent terms of imprisonment for multiple offences, including burglary, assault, criminal damage, and attempted intimidation. The Court of Appeal found that the failure to impose consecutive sentences for offences that occurred sequentially represented an error in principle. The new judgment imposes consecutive sentences for the later offences, reflecting the seriousness of the repeated criminal behavior and the aggravation of the offences under the Domestic Violence Act 2018.
Court of Appeal, domestic violence, intimidation, burglary, assault, criminal damage, attempted intimidation, undue leniency, consecutive sentences, mitigation, aggravating factors, Domestic Violence Act 2018, Criminal Justice Act 1993, Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997, Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001, Criminal Damage Act 1991, principle of totality, rehabilitation, suspended sentence.
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