[2007] EWCA Crim 860

A sentence of five years' imprisonment for an offence of causing death by dangerous driving was manifestly excessive where the judge had wrongly categorized the offence as in the higher culpability bracket. The amount of alcohol consumed by the driver and the features of excessive speed and serious injury to a second person took the case to the top point of the intermediate category only, before consideration of the mitigating factors.

CA (Crim Div) (Maurice Kay LJ, Penry-Davey J, Judge Paget QC)

13/03/2007