2025-04-03
'Lenient' sentence upheld for dangerous driver who caused 'devastating' harm to five-year-old
Stage: Appeal
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; While acknowledging that the sentence imposed was lenient, he said that the court did not consider it to be unduly lenient or outside of the norm. Saying that the sentence imposed was designed to "achieve communication of significant censure and to achieve deterrence both specific and general", Mr Justice Edwards ruled that the court was not persuaded that the sentencing judge got the balance wrong in all the circumstances.