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