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ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S REFERENCE (NOS.78, 85 & 79 OF 1998) SUB NOM R V (1) ROBERT JOHN RUSSELL (2) SARAH RUTH MAYNER (3) JASON PATRICK O'SHEA (1999)

PUBLISHED July 22, 1999
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In an Attorney-General's reference against the sentences ordered for offences of arson with intent to endanger life and arson being reckless as to whether life would be endangered, whilst the sentences were lenient, they could not, in the circumstances, be regarded as unduly lenient.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Bingham of Cornhill LCJ, Alliott J, Steel J)

22/07/1999

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