[2007] EWCA Crim 3021

A discretionary life sentence was appropriate only where the offence was of such gravity as to call for a very long sentence and it appeared from the nature of the offences or from the defendant's history that he was a person of unstable character likely to commit such offences in the future, with specially injurious consequences.

CA (Crim Div) (Hughes LJ, Field J, Judge Richard Brown)

29/11/2007