[2002] EWCA Crim 825
Sentences of three-and-a-half and four years' imprisonment were upheld in relation to prison officers' assaults against a prisoner. Prisoners were entitled to the protection of the law from assaults on them and society was entitled to the proper discharge of a prison officer's responsibilities.
CA (Crim Div) (Auld LJ, Newman J, Roderick Evans J)
19/03/2002