Attorney General written question – answered at on 29 January 2018.
To ask the Attorney General, how many sentences have been successfully appealed under the Unduly Lenient Sentences Scheme in each year for which statistics are available.
The number of sentences that have been successfully appealed during the last six years are:
Year | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
AGO contacted | 443 | 498 | 676 | 713 | 837 | 943 |
Referred to Court of Appeal (CA) | 82 | 70 | 122 | 136 | 190 | 173* |
Sentence increased by CA | 62 | 61 | 106 | 102 | 141 | 116 |
* This includes 25 sentences passed in 2017 which have been referred to the Court of Appeal, but which it has not yet considered.
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