[2007] EWCA Crim 2838
A judge had been entitled to impose a deferred sentence on a young offender who had been convicted of racially aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm, affray and possession of an offensive weapon, even though the threshold for passing a custodial sentence had been passed.
CA (Crim Div) (Hughes LJ, Wyn Williams J, Judge Richard Brown)
14/11/2007