The appellant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment for possession of an offensive weapon, 2 years and 3 months for affray and 4 months for assaulting a police officer. The latter two sentences were consecutive, making a total of 2 years and 7 months’ imprisonment. The principal…
The appellant was on licence from prison having served 14 years of a sentence of life imprisonment for murder. He was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for possession of a small lock knife with a two and a quarter inch blade. His defence at trial was that the knife was…
