Sentencing: Appeals

(asked on 12th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many times the Unduly Lenient Sentencing Scheme has been used in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Michael Ellis Portrait
Michael Ellis
This question was answered on 20th November 2020

The Law Officers referred a sentence imposed on an offender to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme on 136 occasions in 2015, 190 in 2016, 173 in 2017, 140 in 2018 and 93 in 2019.

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