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20/10/2025
Jack Barros appeared at the Court of Appeal (14th October 2025) representing a defendant who received a sentence of 5 years’ imprisonment for offences of affray and threatening with an article with a blade committed in May 2024.
The Defendant had held onto the window of another man’s car as it drove down a busy road in Bristol. When the car came to a stop, the Defendant had produced a knife and threatened the driver until one of the passengers got out of the vehicle.
Following a six-day trial in December 2024, the Defendant was convicted and sentenced to a total of 5 years’ imprisonment, comprising 3 years’ imprisonment for threatening with an article with a blade and 2 years’ imprisonment for affray.
Jack successfully argued at the Court of Appeal that the sentencing judge had erred by imposing consecutive rather than concurrent sentences for offences arising out of the same incident, and that in doing so had passed a sentence that was wrong in principle in that it exceeded the statutory maximum penalty available for each offence.
In allowing the appeal, the Court (Eady J, Baker J and HHJ Lodge) reduced the total sentence to 2 years and 9 months’ imprisonment.
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