A three-year probation order was an unduly lenient sentence for an offence of rape having regard to both the facts of the case and the remarks made in Attorney-General's Reference (No.24 of 1999) (2000) CAR(S) 275. Accordingly, the sentence would be quashed and substituted with a term of two-and-a-half years' imprisonment.

CA (Crim Div) (Rose LJ, Jowitt J, Hallett J)

23/05/2000