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R v PETER COONAN (FORMERLY PETER SUTCLIFFE) (2011)

PUBLISHED January 14, 2011
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[2011] EWCA Crim 5

In determining the minimum term under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 Sch.22 for an offender who had committed a series of murders and attempted murders, a judge had been right not to take into account medical evidence of mental disorder as mitigation where the jury had rejected evidence of such disorder.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Judge LCJ, Calvert-Smith J, Griffith Williams J)

14/01/2011

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