Solomons [2019] EWCA Crim 807

The appellant pleaded guilty to assisting an offender by taping over number plates to impede the prosecution of a friend who had committed criminal damage, and also by concealing CCTV when the same friend went on to commit an offence of GBH with intent. He had a conviction in 2009 for perverting the course of justice and s20 for which he successfully completed a suspended sentence. Six months imprisonment was imposed for the first offence with 2 years to run consecutively for the second.

The appeal was allowed, the court set aside the sentence of six months and substituted a sentence of one month to run concurrently with the sentence on the second count; on that count the term of two years was set aside and substituted with a sentence of sixteen months.