CRIMINAL DIVISION
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B e f o r e :
(LORD JUSTICE ROSE)
MR JUSTICE GIBBS
MR JUSTICE STANLEY BURNTON
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CLAYTON WILLIAM LYON |
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"What do you think you've just done?"
To which the victim replied:
"What is your problem?"
The appellant then head-butted the victim "like a sledgehammer", as an independent witness described it, knocking him to the floor. According to Mrs Opanuga the appellant then hit the victim several more times while he lay on the floor, and he was heard to say: "You fucking black bastard." The appellant went back to his car and drove onto the wrong side of the road, in order to navigate the car in front at the traffic lights. He left his victim unconscious on the ground.
"This Court appears to have set the tariff... lower than we would have expected."
This Court is grateful for the opportunity provided by the grant of leave to comment on those two authorities and to make some general observations about the citations of authorities on sentence appeals.