[2007] EWCA Crim 2635

In setting a minimum term for murder under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 s.276 a judge was wrong to have concluded that the Home Secretary would have imposed a higher term than that recommended by the trial judge. The minimum term of 17 years was quashed and replaced with a minimum term of 15 years as recommended by the trial judge.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Phillips LCJ, Davis J, Simon J)

24/10/2007