CRIMINAL DIVISION
ON APPEAL FROM THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
HHJ SARAH MUNRO KC T20217236
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B e f o r e :
MRS JUSTICE FARBEY
RECORDER OF LEEDS
(HIS HONOUR JUDGE KEARL KC)
(Sitting as a Judge of the CACD)
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OLIVER SCOTT STASIOUS SCOTT |
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Lower Ground, 46 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1JE
Tel No: 020 7404 1400; Email: rcj@epiqglobal.co.uk (Official Shorthand Writers to the Court)
The Applicant Oliver Scott did not appear and was not represented
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MRS JUSTICE FARBEY :
Introduction
The Facts
Stasious Scott
Sentencing remarks
Grounds of Appeal - Stasious
Ground 1 - Judge's approach to manslaughter sentence
Ground 2 - Perverting the course of justice
Ground 3 - Totality
Conclusion
Oliver Scott
"Your first two grounds dispute factual findings of the judge who heard your trial. There is no prospect at all, much less a realistic prospect, of the full court finding that the judge was wrong to make these findings.
As to the judge's starting point, given that this was the removal of a body and the obstruction of a murder investigation, the judge was correct on clear authority to consider the sentence should be at the top of the appropriate scale for this offence. The judge found there to be several serious aggravating factors. There was no mitigation of substance…It is not arguable that the judge identified too high a starting point for your sentence, that the sentence was wrong in principle or that the sentence was manifestly excessive."