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Court of Appeal reduced an extended sentence for a young offender convicted of multiple robberies and attempted robberies, but upheld dangerousness and an extended sentence.
Agwo, R. v [2026] EWCA Crim 614 (30 April 2026)
Court of Appeal reduced an extended sentence for a youth robbers' case, correcting the robbery harm category while upholding dangerousness.
The sentencing judge erred in failing to separately consider and apply the Impairment Guideline to assess whether the appellant's mental illness reduced her culpability for the offences. There was sufficient evidence of a connection between the appellant's paranoid schizophrenia and the offending, warranting a reduction in culpability and a lower sentencing category. As a result, the sentence should be reduced to a determinate term of 40 months, and the extended sentence quashed.
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Youssefi, R. v [2025] EWCA Crim 899 (19 June 2025)
The Court of Appeal held that the sentencing judge failed to apply the totality principle, allowing the appeal in part and reducing the total sentence to 10 years.
The sentence imposed, including the categorisation of harm and the finding of dangerousness, was within the reasonable range open to the sentencing judge given the seriousness of the offence, the injury caused, the appellant's criminal history, and the escalation in offending.
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Taylor, R. v [2025] EWCA Crim 514 (08 April 2025)
The Court of Appeal upheld a 9-year extended sentence for attempted robbery with a knife, rejecting challenges to harm categorisation, mitigation, and dangerousness.
The Court of Appeal reduced a 12-year sentence to 10 years after finding the judge failed to apply the totality principle when structuring consecutive sentences.
The Recorder failed to give sufficient weight to the appellant's youth at the time of the offence, his effective good character, and his positive progress in the years since the offence. The mitigation present balanced the aggravation, warranting a reduction in sentence for attempted robbery from seven years to five years' imprisonment.
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Vania, R. v [2025] EWCA Crim 172 (05 February 2025)
The Court of Appeal reduced Hashim Vania’s attempted robbery sentence from seven years to five years, finding the original sentence gave insufficient weight to mitigation.
The need for medical treatment, even if urgent and complex, does not make this an exceptional case warranting suspension of sentence where the prison authorities are managing the applicant's care and there is no evidence of failure to provide treatment. The sentence was not manifestly excessive and all relevant factors were considered by the sentencing judge.
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