S.M. has sentence reduced for indecent assault convictions

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S.M.’s appeal against indecent assault convictions was dismissed, but the Court of Appeal reduced his five-and-a-half-year sentence, with two years suspended, on 24 June 2020.

The court ruled that sentences for three offences against his first sister should run concurrently with two other sentences against her. The sentence for an offence against his second sister remained consecutive.

The convictions concerned five indecent assaults against one sister and one against another, occurring in the 1980s.