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R v Francis Junior Wellington (AG’s Reference No 1 of 2021 under s36 Criminal Justice Act 1988)

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R v Francis Junior Wellington (AG’s Reference No 1 of 2021 under s36 Criminal Justice Act 1988)
   
Issue: Whether a sentence of 5 years’ imprisonment for various offences, including drugs offending that presumptively required a sentence of 7 years, by an offender with a mental illness that arose from substance abuse was unduly lenient.
   
Court: Court of Appeal
   
Reference:   2021/155/A1
   
Neutral Citation:   [2021] EWCA Crim 294
   
Judge(s): Lord Burnett CJ, William Davis J, Sir Alan Wilkie
   
Date: 44260