[2013] EWCA Crim 1564

Magistrates' courts should be slow to sentence in serious cases where some co-defendants were sentenced summarily and others similarly charged were sentenced by the crown court. Although there was disparity between an appellant's sentence and those of his co-defendants for the same offences, their good fortune in receiving lenient sentences was no reason to alter that of the appellant.

CA (Crim Div) (Mitting J, Judge Bevan QC)

16/07/2013