[2004] EWCA Crim 3286

The judge had been in the best position to assess the culpability of the defendant and his co-accused employers where the defendant had driven a poorly maintained HGV knowing the brakes to be defective and had killed a pedestrian. In the circumstances, a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment following a plea of guilty to manslaughter was not unduly lenient.

CA (Crim Div) (Judge LJ, Rafferty J, Dobbs J)

16/12/2004