[2011] EWCA Crim 3327

The definitive sentencing guideline for fraud indicated in several places that where there were aggravating or mitigating factors of exceptional significance, a case might move to a higher of lower level of seriousness. In the instant case, therefore, the sentencing judge had been right to sentence a lower scale advanced fee fraud in a higher bracket where the defendant had an extensive criminal record for deception and fraud, and where he had targeted a 93-year-old lady whom he knew had previously been a victim of fraud.

CA (Crim Div) (Stanley Burnton LJ, Spencer J, Judge Gilbart QC)

12/10/2011