[2012] EWCA Crim 1873

A sentence of 11-and-a-half years' imprisonment imposed following a plea of guilty to manslaughter was not manifestly excessive where the offender had hidden the body and only confessed to the killing 24 years later. The fact that the sentencing regime had changed in the time since the offence took place was irrelevant to the sentencing exercise.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Judge LCJ, Royce J, Griffith Williams J)

05/07/2012