CRIMINAL DIVISION
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B e f o r e :
MR JUSTICE FOSKETT
MRS JUSTICE NICOLA DAVIES DBE
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(1) They were at the top end of the sentencing guidelines bracket;
(2) The learned judge did not take sufficient account of the circumstances of the offence, namely that the appellant was at the material time a psychiatric patient.
"What you did clearly distressed her deeply, and almost certainly undermined her already very low self esteem, and I recollect that during the course of the evidence she told the court of how it was that she tried to leave the room and you barred her exit, made it more difficult for her, and it seems to me, in my judgment, the impact on a woman such as she, already damaged, will be very severe."