A total sentence of four years and nine-and-a-half months' imprisonment imposed upon a 22-year-old man for three counts of burglary was not manifestly excessive, as he was a third-strike burglar to whom the minimum term of three years' imprisonment applied by virtue of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 s.111, and a failure to impose a consecutive sentence for the third burglary would have sent out the wrong message.

CA (Crim Div) (Moses LJ, Cranston J, Lang J DBE)

17/12/2013