[2001] EWCA Crim 198

A sentence of six months' imprisonment for offences of causing a noxious thing to be taken and common assault, where the appellant had placed a prescription-only drug into the victim's wine, could not be described as manifestly excessive or wrong in principle.

CA (Crim Div) (Pill LJ, Pitchford J, Judge Hyam QC)

06/02/2001