Brian Smith [2020] EWCA Crim 368

The appellant was convicted in her absence and committed to the crown court for sentence for burglary. She had also pleaded guilty to three other domestic burglaries against the same victim, a further domestic burglary, failing to attend a drug assessment, two non-dwelling burglaries and associated frauds using stolen cards….

The appellants pleaded guilty to a non-dwelling burglary. Lewis was sentenced to 2 years and 4 months’ imprisonment and McNeil to 1 year and 10 months.  Lewis invited McNeil to assist him in stealing 5kg of cannabis, with the arrangement that Lewis would pay him once the cannabis had been…

The appellant was convicted of two offences of domestic burglary and was committed for sentence for a non-dwelling burglary. He was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment for the domestic burglaries with 8 months concurrent for the non-dwelling offence. The domestic burglaries were “mean and despicable offences, targeting vulnerable elderly victims…

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…