[2010] EWCA Crim 752

A sentence of imprisonment for public protection, with a minimum term of five years, imposed on an offender for an offence of causing grievous bodily harm with intent was not wrong in principle or manifestly excessive. However, a sentence of imprisonment for public protection imposed on a co-offender was wrong in principle as the co-offender had no previous convictions for violence, played a secondary role in the offence and showed real remorse.

CA (Crim Div) (Elias LJ, Jack J, Judge Radford (Recorder of Redbridge))

30/03/2010