Szutowski [2019] EWCA Crim 645

The appellant pleaded guilty to 4 burglaries, two committed in January and two in February. He was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment on each offence, for each pair of burglaries the sentences were ordered to run consecutively making a total of 6 years.

Held: there was force in the submission that insufficient account was taken of the appellant’s mitigation. The appropriate sentence for each pair of burglaries was 27 months but each pair of sentences to run consecutively making a total of 54 months.