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Court of Appeal allows appeal of an unduly lenient sentence of two and half years' imprisonment imposed for dangerous driving causing death, and increases the sentence to six years with the final two years and nine months suspended, on the grounds that sentencing judge erred in the identification of four years' imprisonment as the proper starting point.
Criminal law – sentencing – undue leniency – whether a sentence of two and half years' imprisonment was unduly lenient – s. 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 – dangerous driving causing death – whether the sentencing judge fell into significant error in holding that the offence was at the lower end of the medium band of offending and erred having taken the aggravating factors into account – sentencing judge erred in the identification of four years imprisonment as the proper starting point – headline sentence in this case was too low and therefore unduly lenient – six-year sentence with the final two years and nine months suspended substituted – appeal allowed.
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