Where a sentencing judge had assumed every point in a defendant's favour before sentencing and there had been no application for a pre-sentence report, the court was justified in concluding that a pre-sentence report was unnecessary (R v Gillette (1999) Times, December 03, 1999 distinguished).

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Woolf of Barnes LCJ, Steel J, Butterfield J)

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