A total sentence of 32 months' imprisonment for drug offences plus an 18-week activated suspended sentence was reduced to two years and two months' imprisonment. Where a judge activated a suspended sentence in full, he could not take it into account as an aggravating factor when sentencing for offences committed during the operational period of the suspended sentence.

CA (Crim Div) (Sharp LJ, Griffith Williams J, Lindblom J)

22/11/2013