Freddie Pargetter got off lightly. He has no reasonable prospects of appealing his 12 month sentence10/1/2018 Regina v. Frederick Pargetter ADVICE ON APPEAL AGAINST SENTENCE
The Facts
Assistance to the police
It has been the long-standing practice of the courts to recognise by a further discount of sentence the help given, and expected to be given, to the authorities in the investigation, detection, suppression and prosecution of serious crime: see, for example, Sinfield (1981) 3 Cr.App.R.(S.) 258 , King (1985) 7 Cr.App.R.(S.) 227 , Sivan (1988) 10 Cr.App.R.(S.) 282 . The extent of the discount will ordinarily depend on the value of the help given and expected to be given. Value is a function of quality and quantity. If the information given is unreliable, vague, lacking in practical utility or already known to the authorities, no identifiable discount may be given or, if given, any discount will be minimal. If the information given is accurate, particularised, useful in practice, and hitherto unknown to the authorities, enabling serious criminal activity to be stopped and serious criminals brought to book, the discount may be substantial. Hence little or no credit will be given for the supply of a mass of information which is worthless or virtually so, but the greater the supply of good quality information the greater in the ordinary way the discount will be. Where, by supplying valuable information to the authorities, a defendant exposes himself or his family to personal jeopardy, it will ordinarily be recognised in the sentence passed. For all these purposes, account will be taken of help given and reasonably expected to be given in the future.
Sentencing Guidelines
(a) The category of “harm” (ranging from 1 to 4, with 1 being the most serious); and (b) The “culpability” determined by Mr Pargetter’s role.
“I must take into account Mr Pargetter’s privileged background. Which would suggest he dealt in drugs simply because he could. He is not someone who needed to do it for financial gain or any other purpose which I am able to discern. It was entirely his own choice. Having dealt with a number of such cases previously, I have to say that I find this form of drug dealing the most inexcusable. With no purpose other than self-gratification, it is both reckless and uncaring of the consequences for its victims.”
A suspended sentence?
Pump Court Chambers Matthew Scott October 1st 2018 The post Freddie Pargetter got off lightly. He has no reasonable prospects of appealing his 12 month sentence appeared first on BarristerBlogger. from http://barristerblogger.com/2018/10/01/freddie-pargetter-got-off-lightly-he-has-no-reasonable-prospects-of-appealing-his-12-month-sentence/
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