2020-11-13
Arsonist fails in appeal against sentence for setting fire to detective's home
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Counsel said that the judge had approached her task with particular care, and that the sentence she had imposed was within the available range. Justice Patrick McCarthy, who sat with Justice Birmingham, presiding, and Justice Kennedy delivered an ex tempore judgment this afternoon. "We think the sentence imposed was certainly lenient," he said. "The only matter we had to consider was whether we should quash the sentence and impose a longer one." He said that it was with some hesitation that they decided to content themselves with dismissing the appeal, and they did so.