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R V EDWARD PATRICK SMART (2000)

PUBLISHED February 2, 2000
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Had the appellant been convicted of assault under s.18 Offences Against the Person Act 1861, he could have expected a term of imprisonment of between seven and eight years. In view of the fact that he was in fact convicted of attempted murder, a ten-year sentence was appropriate in all the circumstances as there was a need to differentiate the degree of intent between the two types of offences.

CA (Crim Div) (Evans LJ, Owen J, Judge Geoffrey Grigson)

02/02/2000

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