| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2005] All ER (D) 324 (Oct) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | Rose LJ, Nelson and Swift JJ |
| Representation | Jonathan Duffy (instructed by Paul Crowley Solicitors) for the offender. |
| Edward Brown (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Attorney General. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 27 October 2005 |
Catchwords
Sentence - Drug treatment and testing order - Drugs offence - Supplying Class A drugs - Whether non-custodial sentence unduly lenient - Whether judge having grounds to treat case as exceptional.
The Case
In the instant case, where the offender had supplied small amounts of heroin and crack cocaine, at a street-commercial level, and had had 302 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine at his home after his arrest, a two-years drug treatment and testing order was lenient, but the judge had been entitled to taken an exceptional course in all the circumstances of the case.
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