Case No 2024/01343/B4 - [2025] EWCA Crim 1370

Fecha: 03-Oct-2025

The Respondent's Submissions

The Respondent's Submissions

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Mr Houston draws attention to the preamble in the Definitive Guideline for Rape, which states:

"Offences may be of such severity, for example involving a campaign of rape, that sentences of 20 years and above may be appropriate."

He goes on to note that the authorities show that this is not confined to "campaign" cases. He emphasises the very serious view that the judge took of this offending; that it was a repeated course of sexual offending against five young people; and that it involved some offending that would now be categorised as rape.

Heading
Section 1
The Material Circumstances
The Sentencing Exercise
The Grounds of Appeal
The Respondent's Submissions
Conclusions