Christopher Black loses appeal over robbery sentence

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Christopher Black lost his four-and-a-half-year sentence appeal at the Court of Appeal on 26 July 2019 after pleading guilty to two robberies and heroin possession. The offences included robbing an 18-year-old woman at a Camden Street ATM with a syringe.

The court dismissed the appeal, finding the overall sentence was not excessive and had been at the lower end of the scale. Black had 55 previous convictions, while the judgment also recorded longstanding polysubstance abuse and limited evidence of rehabilitation.