[2012] EWCA Crim 2100

A total sentence of five years' imprisonment imposed for two sexual assaults was manifestly excessive and was reduced to three years. The judge had been entitled to find that the aggravating features moved the offences out of the third category in the definitive guideline for sexual assault, but he had erred in passing a sentence on one count which was at the starting point of the first category.

CA (Crim Div) (Rafferty LJ, Thirlwall J, Judge Andrew Gilbart QC (Recorder of Manchester))

04/10/2012