[2012] EWCA Crim 1776

Concurrent sentences of eight months' imprisonment imposed on an offender following his guilty pleas to four counts of credit card fraud were reduced to concurrent five-month terms. The offences fell within the second category in the guidelines for offences of banking fraud, and while a number of aggravating factors had entitled the judge to go outside the guidelines, he had not accounted for the low value of the fraud.

CA (Crim Div) (Moore-Bick LJ, Kenneth Parker J, Judge Goss QC (Recorder of Newcastle))

19/06/2012