Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2005] All ER (D) 223 (Feb)
Neutral Citation: [2004] EWCA Civ 2627
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Richards and Bean JJ

Representation Barry Myers (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the first defendant.
  Philip Andrews (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the second defendant.
  Philip Rouse (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the third defendant.
Judgment Dates: 1 October 2004

Catchwords

Sentencing - Conspiracy - Conspiracy to supply Class A drug - Custodial sentence - Duration of sentence manifestly excessive.

The Case

The sentences of five years' imprisonment, four years' imprisonment and five years' detention in a young offender institution which had been imposed upon the first, second and third defendants respectively following guilty pleas entered on a charges of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs were manifestly excessive, and, accordingly, those sentences would be reduced to sentences of four years and three months' imprisonment, three years and nine months' imprisonment three years' and nine months' detention in a young offender institution.

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