[2009] EWCA Crim 543

Convictions for entering into or being concerned in a money laundering arrangement were upheld as the judge had not erred in allowing references to the victim's age and vulnerability to be adduced in evidence, or in failing to discharge a police officer from the jury, and the summing up had not been unfair. However, the three-year sentences of imprisonment imposed on each offender were manifestly excessive and were reduced to two years as there had been no evidence that they had known the source of the money they had laundered.

CA (Crim Div) (Thomas LJ, Blake J, Burnett J)

12/02/2009