A judge had not erred when sentencing an offender to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 10 years, as a sentence of “last resort” for extreme child sex offences committed over a number of years against his own children. The sentence was also not unduly lenient, despite the minimum term not being increased when the offender was sentenced for further offences which involved the same children being offered to other men for sexual purposes.
CHILD SEX OFFENCES CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE CONSPIRACY EXTENDED SENTENCES LIFE IMPRISONMENT RAPE OF CHILD UNDER 13 SENTENCE LENGTH SENTENCING SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILD FAMILY MEMBER SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN UNDUE LENIENCY VICTIM IMPACT
Life sentences coupled with minimum terms ranging from 17 to 12 years were appropriate in the case of four men who had been convicted of serious sexual offences following their involvement in one of the worst cases of child exploitation to come before the courts.
APPROPRIATENESS OF LIFE SENTENCES FOR SERIOUS SEXUAL OFFENCES AGAINST CHILDREN CHILD PROSTITUTION OFFENCES CHILD SEX OFFENCES CONSPIRACY DISCRETIONARY LIFE IMPRISONMENT MINIMUM TERM RAPE RAPE OF CHILD UNDER 13 SENTENCE LENGTH SENTENCING TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION VICTIM IMPACT
A European arrest warrant had sufficiently particularised a convicted requested person’s involvement in a conspiracy to traffic women into prostitution in Italy, the demands in respect of conviction warrants being less onerous than those in relation to accusation warrants. An ECHR art.3 argument based on Italian prison conditions had been foreclosed by the decision in Elashmawy v Italy [2015] EWHC 28 (Admin).
CONSPIRACY CONVICTIONS EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANTS EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 1950 art.3 EXTRADITION EXTRADITION OFFENCES HUMAN RIGHTS INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT PARTICULARS PRISON CONDITIONS s.22 s.30 s.30(2) SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT 1956 s.10
It was not arguable that either a total sentence of 29 years’ custody with an extended licence period of six years imposed on a former rock band singer for various sexual offences against children and young persons, or a total sentence of 17 years’ imprisonment imposed on a woman who had allowed the singer to sexually assault her 12-month-old baby daughter, were manifestly excessive.
CHILD SEX OFFENCES CONSPIRACY GUILTY PLEAS INCLUDING ASSAULT BY PENETRATION AND CONSPIRACY TO RAPE 12-MONTH-OLD CHILD RAPE OF CHILD UNDER 13 SENTENCE LENGTH SENTENCING SEXUAL ASSAULT OF CHILD UNDER 13 SEXUAL ASSAULTS OF CHILDREN TOTALITY OF SENTENCE
In a trial concerning conspiracy to rape a child under 13, the judge, when considering a submission of no case to answer, had failed to consider whether a reasonable jury could be entitled to infer that the offenders intended to carry out the agreement. Taking the prosecution evidence at its highest, no reasonable jury could infer that the offenders had intended to carry out the agreement.
CONSPIRACY CRIMINAL PROCEDURE INTENTION OF OFFENDERS TO CARRY OUT AGREEMENT JURIES NO CASE TO ANSWER RAPE OF CHILD UNDER 13 WHETHER REASONABLE JURY COULD INFER AN AGREEMENT TO RAPE A CHILD UNDER 13
A sentence of 40 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to traffic into the United Kingdom for sexual exploitation contrary to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 s.57 was excessive in light of a defendant’s lack of previous convictions, his young age, the limited scale of the criminal operation and his plea of guilty.
AGGRAVATING FEATURES CONSPIRACY GUILTY PLEAS s.52 SENTENCE LENGTH SENTENCING SENTENCING GUIDELINES SEXUAL OFFENCES SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT 2003 s.57 STARTING POINTS TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
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