{"id":1073,"date":"2014-07-31T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escort-scotland.com\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2024-03-14T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T13:13:44","slug":"rolf-harris-will-sentence-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escort-scotland.com\/blog\/rolf-harris-will-sentence-increased\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolf Harris Will NOT Have His Sentence Increased"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at the Escort Scotland blog we have kept you up to date with the Rolf Harris case. As we all know, Rolf was convicted of 12 sexual offences and jailed for five years and nine months<\/a>. Well, today there was an update on the case.<\/p>\n

The Attorney General has decided that, despite 150 complaints that the sentence was too lenient, he will not be appealing the length of time Harris will be spending in prison.<\/p>\n

‘Not Likely To Increase’<\/h2>\n

Jeremy Wright would not refer the sentence to the Court of Appeal as “he did not think they would find it to be unduly lenient and increase it”.<\/p>\n

“The sentencing judge was bound by the maximum sentence in force at the time of the offending,” it added.<\/p>\n

“The judge made some of the sentences consecutive to reach the total sentence, but he could not simply add up sentences on individual counts; the overall sentence had to be just and proportionate to the overall offending.”<\/p>\n