[2007] EWCA Crim 254

The court highlighted the issue of prison overcrowding and the need for judges to consider non-custodial sentences, in the context of two joined sentencing appeals where custodial sentences had been imposed for minor offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, bigamy and failing to surrender to bail.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Phillips LCJ, Sir Igor Judge (President), Latham LJ)

13/02/2007