[2025] EWCA Crim 1467

The Solicitor General submits that for a single offence there should have been an upwards adjustment from the starting point of 8 years to reflect the aggravating features of ejaculation and specific targeting of a particularly vulnerablevictim. Although he was entitled to make some modest reduction to reflect the offender's personal mitigation, the aggravating features outweighed the mitigating. But the judge was not sentencing for a single offence but for four. Accordingly, however the individual sentences were structured, it should have resulted in an aggregate sentence well above the 8 years that the judge imposed. Eight years, even if appropriate for a single offence, was unduly lenient as an aggregate sentence for four.