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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S REFERENCE (NO.64 OF 2008) sub nom R v RICHARD WYATT (2009)

PUBLISHED January 20, 2009
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[2009] EWCA Crim 88

A sentence of 18 months' imprisonment imposed on an offender who had pleaded guilty to manslaughter was unduly lenient and was increased to three years' imprisonment as the offender had a history of previous offences consistent with yobbish behaviour, was on bail and subject to a community order at the time of the offence and an innocent man had died due to his gratuitous violence.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Judge LCJ, Pitchford J, Roderick Evans J)

20/01/2009

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