Crown Court sentencing

for a bottling, depends whether its a smashed bottle or a complete bottle, depends whether it was a thrust or a hit to the head, depends whether it was planned or whether it was instinctive (goes hand in hand with smashed or complete), depends on whether one blow or a number, depends on the damage.

answer those and i'll tell you.

 

it was nearly attempted murder the guy was in ICU for 3 days, he,s out now but did just about 4 years as it wasnt his first offence.

 

Here goes...........................................

Depends on the level of charge on the Indictment, what their antecedents are (previous convictions), who the Judge is and what's in any Probation Service pre-sentence report. It sounds like they've already been convicted of the offence in the Magistrate's Court and the Magistrates don't think their sentencing powers are enough. Should probably start at custodial sentence with discount for guilty plea. Whether that takes it into Community penalty territory rather than immediate imprisonment depends on all the factors. If it's street violence they'll clamp down on it.
Just a guess, like.............................................................................eh, Jedi One?????

 

I know of at least two s.20 GBH (GBH, no intent to cause) cases where in each case the offender got a suspended two year sentence and a heafty fine. One of those cases was a glassing - but the circumstances weremitigated by an awful lot of people providing good character evidence.</p>

The text book answer is that you can get 10 years for GBH wounding with intent (s.18)- but nobody ever gets the maximum sentence.</p>