[2001] EWCA Crim 1626

Allowing for double jeopardy, sentences in the range of five to seven years' imprisonment would have been considered appropriate sentences after a contested trial for offences of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm where glasses, bottles, or knives had been used in the course of public disturbances. A small measure of distinction was allowed where there had been a private argument which had coincidentally ended in street violence.

CA (Crim Div) (Potter LJ, Tomlinson J, McCombe J)

10/07/2001