ON APPEAL FROM THE
CROWN COURT AT MANCHESTER
Her Honour Judge Woodward
06GG0318124
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL |
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B e f o r e :
MR JUSTICE CHOUDHURY
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MR JUSTICE BOURNE
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ADAM CHEETHAM |
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Lord Justice Stuart-Smith:
The Facts
Antecedents
Character Reference
The Pre-sentence Report
The Sentencing Hearing
The Sentencing Remarks
"It was ... conduct that was intended over the period of this offence, to maximise the alarm and distress felt by Miss Reeves and the other occupants of the property in which she lived. I am also satisfied that it does amount to persistent action.
It is a category 2 case because the victim personal statements describe significant distress but not, in the absence of a more recent victim personal statement or further detail, a category 1 case."
"[They were] committed in a domestic context and … in respect of at least some of the offences or actions that amount or form part of the offences, you were under the influence of alcohol."
The judge then passed sentence explaining that, after a trial, the sentence for the offence of wounding would have been 30 months, which she reduced to 26 months. The sentence for the offence of harassment after a trial would have been 12 months' custody which she reduced to 10 months consecutive. She passed a concurrent sentence of 8 months for the bladed article offence for the reasons she had explained. She then concluded by saying that the total sentence of 36 months represented the shortest term commensurate with the seriousness of the overall offending behaviour.
Discussion and Resolution