[2007] EWCA Crim 44

A judge had erred in adopting a starting point of 15 years for a murder involving a firearm and in considering it to be a free-standing aggravating feature, as the statutory framework required a mandatory starting point of 30 years' imprisonment. However, he was correct to allow the prevalence of local gun crime to affect the minimum term imposed.

CA (Crim Div) (Moses LJ, Nelson J, Judge John Griffith Williams QC)

19/01/2007