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R v GREIG STRACHAN (2007)

PUBLISHED June 6, 2007
SHARE

[2007] EWCA Crim 1571

An order under the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 s.86 extending the licence period of a sentence until the end of the full length of the custodial term should not have been made where the psychiatric evidence was that the offender, who had been convicted several years after he committed the offence, was no longer a danger to the public.

CA (Crim Div) (Pill LJ, Calvert-Smith J, Dobbs J)

06/06/2007

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