Regina v Kelly; Same v Bowers; Same v Singh (Balraj); Same v Harding and others – WLR Daily

Posted June 20th, 2011 in appeals, law reports, murder, offensive weapons, sentencing by sally

Regina v Kelly; Same v Bowers; Same v Singh (Balraj); Same v Harding and others [2011] EWCA Crim 1462; [2011] WLR (D) 197

“For the purposes of deciding the starting point for determining the minimum term to be served by a defendant sentenced to life imprisonment on conviction of murder committed with a knife the fact that the defendant had taken a knife from the kitchen of a home to another room in the same home, even if a locked door was forced, did not mean that he had taken the knife to the scene within the meaning of paragraph 5A of Schedule 21 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003.”

WLR Daily, 16th June 2011

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