The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 4 WLR 11
Court of Appeal
Rex
v
Hawkridge
[2023] EWCA Crim 1288
2023 Oct 11; Nov 3
Stuart-Smith LJ, Choudhury J, Judge Shant KC
Crime— Sentence— Hospital direction— Defendant inpatient at mental hospital pleading guilty to harassment— Defendant sentenced to suspended sentence— Whether appropriate to impose custodial sentence on sectioned defendant—
Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20), ss 3, 37
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Sentencing Act 2020 (c 17), s 232
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