[2008] EWCA Crim 1417
Conduct during a murder would only amount to sadistic conduct within the Criminal Justice Act 2003 Sch.21 para.5(2)(e) if the offender had a significant degree of awareness of pleasure in the infliction of pain, suffering or humiliation.
CA (Crim Div) (Lord Phillips LCJ, Goldring J, Plender J)
17/06/2008