[2012] EWCA Crim 2197

A recorder had properly exercised his discretion to impose a second successive sentence of imprisonment for public protection following an offender's conviction for two counts of threatening to kill where the offender had committed those offences within two months of being released on licence under the first such sentence. When originally releasing the offender on licence, the Parole Board had evidently formed the view that he was no longer dangerous, and a determinate sentence would not have expressed the recorder's subsequent finding to the contrary.

CA (Crim Div) (Pitchford LJ, Bean J, Underhill J)

18/09/2012