Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2011] All ER (D) 207 (Nov)
Court: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
Judge:

Hooper LJ, Edwards-Stuart J and the Recorder of Hull (judgment delivered extempore)

Representation Glen Parsons (instructed by Tubs & Co) for the offender.
  Kay Wilkinson (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Attorney General.
Judgment Dates: 29 November 2011

Catchwords

Sentence - Imprisonment - Sexual offence - Sentencing for historical sexual abuse - Indecent assault - Offender indecently assaulting daughter over nine-month period - Offender being sentenced to three years' imprisonment - Attorney General applying for leave to refer sentence to Court of Appeal - Whether sentence unduly lenient.

The Case

Sentence Imprisonment. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, increased a sentence from three years' imprisonment to six years' imprisonment, where an offender had been convicted of six counts of indecently assaulting his daughter.

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