A judge had not been wrong to impose on a life-long paedophile a long determinate sentence rather than a sentence of life imprisonment for 22 sexual offences including buggery and rape committed against a number of children over an eight-year period, as psychiatric evidence offered some prospect of his being cured of his deviant predilections.

CA (Crim Div) (Mantell LJ, Kay J, Sachs J)

23/03/2000