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ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S REFERENCE (NO.71 OF 1999) SUB NOM R V ARTHUR SAMUEL ROBIN NORTON (1999)

PUBLISHED November 29, 1999
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A sentence of six years' imprisonment for offences of rape, indecent assault and gross indecency with a child, by the respondent against his step-daughter, was regarded as unduly lenient and was substituted with a more appropriate nine-year sentence.

CA (Crim Div) (Roch LJ, Keene J, Astill J)

29/11/1999

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