10 Nov 2005
R V CARTWRIGHT HC HAM T20514
- Citation
- openlaw-2f766ce5_7ccd_4b29_b52c_52f56b6cfa1d.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The lead offence is the conspiracy to manufacture heroin which, judged within the R v Arthur framework, placed the offender near the top of low‑level supply or bottom of the middle category; having assessed aggravating (premeditation, repetition, supplying precursor chemicals and facilitating smuggling into prison) and mitigating factors (coercion from financial obligation, family responsibilities, remorse, prior long good behaviour), the appropriate global sentence was fixed at four years' imprisonment with the 2.5 year sentence for supplying morphine to a prisoner to be served concurrently.