[2010] EWCA Crim 107

A fine of £3,500, to be paid at the rate of £500 per month with a period of six months' imprisonment in default of payment, imposed for an offence of careless driving where death had resulted, was reduced to £1,000 to be paid at the rate of £200 per month. It was appropriate to use the magistrates' court sentencing guidelines for the offence of careless driving and then to add a very significant uplift for the consequential death, whilst attempting to bring fairness and proportionality to the sentence according to the comparative means of offenders.

CA (Crim Div) (Pitchford LJ, Owen J, Recorder of London, Judge Beaumont Recorder of London)

21/01/2010