Osei [2018] EWCA Crim 2728

The appellant was convicted of kidnap and sentenced to eleven years imprisonment. The Courtof Appeal outlined a number of relevant cases as there are no sentencing guidelines for this offence, saying “each kidnap is fact sensitive and kidnaps create difficult sentencing decisions for any sentencing judge”. The Court concluded that the starting point in this case had been too high and reduced the sentence to one of eight years imprisonment.