Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2003] All ER (D) 427 (Dec)
Neutral Citation: [2003] EWCA Crim 2128
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Mance LJ and Mackay J
Representation Simon Ward (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the first defendant.
  Gerald Baxter (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the second defendant.
  Brendan Morris (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the third defendant.
Judgment Dates: 16 June 2003

Catchwords

Sentencing - Custodial sentence - Duration - Aggravated burglary - Appropriate sentence.

The Case

In all the circumstances, sentences of four years' detention in a young offender institution for the second and third defendants, aged 16 and 17, who had been led into an aggravated burglary by the first defendant, would be reduced to terms of two-and-a-half years' detention. In the light of the first defendant's excellent record and character references, and to maintain some relationship with the other sentences, a sentence of seven years' imprisonment would be reduced to one of six years' imprisonment, notwithstanding that he had been the ringleader and instigator of the events in question.

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