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RE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S REFERENCE (NO.35 of 2013) sub nom R v FRANCIS KNIGHT (2013)

PUBLISHED August 16, 2013
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[2013] EWCA Crim 1757

Sentences totalling 16 months' imprisonment were unduly lenient, having been imposed following an offender's guilty pleas to 15 counts of causing or inciting, or attempting to incite, children to engage in sexual activity where the offender had contacted up to 220 children via Facebook. A sentence of four years was appropriate.

CA (Crim Div) (Rafferty J DBE, Griffith Williams J, Thirlwall J DBE)

16/08/2013

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