[2010] EWCA Crim 838

The theft by a drug addict of a handbag containing a purse and house keys from a 63-year-old lady as she walked home from the bus stop around 5pm on a winter afternoon had sufficient aggravating features to justify a sentence in a higher bracket of the Sentencing Guidelines Council guidelines than was technically applicable on the facts. Sentencing guidelines were not to be treated as tram lines.

CA (Crim Div) (Rafferty J, Slade J)

25/02/2010