Liam Waugh [2019] EWCA Crim 1502

This was a renewed application for leave to appeal against sentence. The applicant pleaded guilty to 2 offences of arson and 3 offences of driving whilst disqualified. His total sentence was 3 years and 8 months’ imprisonment.

The offences of arson related to 2 small commercial premises, fires were started with an accelerant through the letterbox of a barbers and a tattoo studio. The motive was unknown. The defence submitted that it was wrong to make all the sentences consecutive when they formed a single series of offences.

Held: the end result was not arguably manifestly excessive. It afforded the applicant appropriate credit for his guilty pleas and properly reflected the totality of his offending.

The appeal was dismissed.