Sentences of 15 months imprisonment suspended after five months for assault occasioning bodily harm whilst armed using a bottle, with a concurrent five months for assault occasioning bodily harm, fall within the appropriate sentencing range where the offender returned to the scene to attack an unsuspecting victim. The case confirms that custodial sentences are ordinarily required for assaults involving bottles or glasses as weapons, and that only unusual circumstances warrant fully suspended or non-custodial sentences.
The full text is available to signed-in members, including the 7 later cases that cite this judgment.
2 of the 7 citing cases carry a classified treatment. How each court treated it is available to signed-in members.