ATTORNEY GENERAL’S REFERENCE (NOS 12 & 13 OF 2015) sub noms R v CRAIG MATTHEW WHITELAW : R v KRISTOFER RYAN MCCLAREN (2015)
Sentences of nine years’ imprisonment were neither unduly lenient nor manifestly excessive for two offenders who had raped an intoxicated young woman in an alleyway outside a nightclub. It had been appropriate not to impose a consecutive sentence for digital anal penetration by one of the offenders.