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Court of Appeal increases the headline sentence from five to eight years for the violent assault and false imprisonment in the boot of a car of the accused's partner. The Court recognised the need for an uplift due to the serious nature of the offences, the duration of the victim's ordeal, and the statutory sentencing policy mandated by the domestic violence legislation in the context of an 'intimate partner relationship'. After accounting for mitigating factors, the final sentence was set at five and a half years, to be backdated to align with the original court's sentence.
False imprisonment, assault causing harm, intimate partner violence, undue leniency, Court of Appeal, Domestic Violence Act 2018, s. 40, headline sentence, mitigating factors, trauma, psychological impact, physical violence, statutory sentencing policy, re-sentencing, uplift in sentence, duration of ordeal, coercive control, trauma, s. 3 Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997.
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