The appellant pleaded guilty to burglary and was made subject to a community order of 12 months with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement and a Curfew Requirement for 12 months. The short point of appeal was that the sentence was manifestly excessive as the appellant had served the equivalent of a…
Three main issues were identified in this appeal, namely: The need for practitioners who appear before the courts, particularly prosecutors, to give accurate assistance to judges in relation to sentencing issues. The extent, if at all, to which time spent on remand in local authority accommodation under s91 of LASPO…