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Sentence – Suspended sentence. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, quashed the minimum term of nine years and three months imposed on the defendant, and substituted it for a sentence of eight years and nine months' imprisonment. The judge had not had the power to 'increase' the minimum term because the offence for which the defendant had received a suspended sentence had not been a 'specified serious offence'.
Sentence – Suspended sentence. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, quashed the minimum term of nine years and three months imposed on the defendant, and substituted it for a sentence of eight years and nine months' imprisonment. The judge had not had the power to 'increase' the minimum term because the offence for which the defendant had received a suspended sentence had not been a 'specified serious offence'.
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