| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2005] All ER (D) 129 (Jun) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2005] EWCA Crim 979 |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | Kennedy LJ, Treacy and Wilkie JJ |
| Representation | William Saunders (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant. |
| Judgment Dates: | 21 April 2005 |
Catchwords
Sentencing - False imprisonment - Making a threat to kill - Duration of sentence manifestly excessive.
The Case
The defendant's appeal against a sentence of three years' imprisonment on one count of false imprisonment and one count of making a threat to kill, to run concurrently, was dismissed, in circumstances where the more appropriate sentence for each of those counts would have been one of 27 months' imprisonment.
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