2021-02-04
Cash collector for drugs gang gets sent to jail after sentence found too lenient
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The Court of Appeal found that in addition to the sentencing judge's identification of a lenient four year sentence, Long then received a discount of 18 months for mitigating factors together with a suspension of the balance, yielding a sentence of two-and-a-half years suspended in its entirety. The court re-sentenced Long to two-and-a-half years in prison.