A sentence of three months' imprisonment for an unprovoked assault occasioning actual bodily harm by an offender with two prior convictions for similar offences is manifestly inadequate; an appropriate sentence in such circumstances is nine months' imprisonment. Where a Crown appeal succeeds but the respondent has already served the sentence, the Court of Appeal may decline to resentence and instead dismiss the appeal with an indication of the appropriate sentence.
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