Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2010] All ER (D) 281 (Oct)
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Gross LJ, Butterfield and Roderick Evans JJ (judgment delivered extempore)

Representation Mark Ruffell (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant.
  Robert Dalling (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown.
Judgment Dates: 29 October 2010

Catchwords

Sentence - Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Conspiracy to supply Class A drug - Cocaine - Defendant being directing mind of small scale commercial conspiracy to supply cocaine to friends and acquaintances - Defendant enlisting help of co-accused to supply cocaine on his direction - Whether sentence of nine years' imprisonment after trial manifestly excessive.

The Case

Sentence Imprisonment. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, allowed the defendant's appeal against his sentence of nine years' imprisonment on his conviction for conspiracy to supply cocaine as, in all the circumstances, the sentence was outside the appropriate bracket.

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