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Court of Appeal allows appeal of completely suspended sentence imposed for various driving offences, and substitutes a sentence of three years' imprisonment with the final two years suspended, on the grounds that the sentence imposed in the Circuit Court was unduly lenient, and there were no exceptional circumstances as would justify a non-custodial sentence.
Criminal law – sentencing – undue leniency – whether a three-year suspended sentence imposed for reckless endangerment, dangerous driving, drink driving, driving without insurance and driving without a valid driving licence was unduly lenient – s. 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 – sentence imposed in the court below was not simply very lenient, but was unduly lenient – three years' imprisonment with the final two years suspended substituted – appeal allowed.
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