Simeon Wallis successful in the Court of Appeal

Simeon Wallis, instructed by Ian Clift and Kim Edgley of JSP,  represented “CEA”, a youth, in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division).

CEA was part of a group who robbed another youth in a town centre, before stabbing a man in the chest in a separate incident 40 minutes later. The events occurred when CEA was 15.

He had been sentenced in the Crown Court to a total of five years and nine months detention for offences of robbery, affray, possession of a bladed article and s.18 GBH.

Simeon successfully argued that the Crown Court Judge failed to give sufficient weight to CEA’s young age and other mitigation.  The sentence was reduced to three years and six months.