Kelly Louise Allison [2019] EWCA Crim 1191

The applicant pleaded guilty to applying a corrosive fluid with intent and was sentenced to an extended sentence of 9 years comprising a custodial term of 6 years. A psychiatrist said she was not thought to pose a significant risk of serious harm to the public and the risk to the applicant herself was greater, so she was not statutorily dangerous. The judge expressed surprise at the psychiatrist’s conclusion and found that she posed a risk because of her emotionally unstable personality disorder and linked behaviour, necessitating an extended sentence.

“… the judge was fully entitled to reach a different conclusion to the psychiatrist, to find that (the applicant) was dangerous and to impose an extended sentence. It is not arguable that (the) sentence was manifestly excessive or otherwise wrong in principle.”

The application was dismissed.