[2009] EWCA Crim 806

A minimum term of a life sentence imposed for murder was reduced from 18 years' to 16 years' imprisonment, as the judge had erred by increasing the starting point from 15 years to 18 years on the basis that the offender's leaving of a turbulent scene to collect knives was a powerful aggravating feature; the judge had identified two mitigating features, which he should have allowed for as lessening the serious aggravating feature.

CA (Crim Div) (Moses LJ, Hedley J, Recorder of Preston)

16/02/2009