{"id":65712,"date":"2015-12-18T12:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8fa5834671e0708cdadf363962603c38"},"modified":"2015-12-18T12:52:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:52:33","slug":"news-story-court-of-appeal-increases-indecent-assault-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65712","title":{"rendered":"News story: Court of Appeal increases indecent assault sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Marie McCarthy was convicted of four counts of indecent assault on a male person at Liverpool Crown Court in October. She received a sentence of imprisonment for 21 months, which was suspended for 2 years. <\/p>\n<p>This sentence was referred to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme by the Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, who today said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI referred the case to the Court of Appeal as I felt the original sentence failed to fully reflect the seriousness of the crime, which involved Marie McCarthy grooming and indecently assaulting a person who was significantly younger than herself many times over a period of five weeks.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope this immediate prison term sends a strong message that crimes of this nature will not be tolerated and that male and female victims and perpetrators will be treated equally before the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal today imposed a sentence of 3 and a half years&#8217; imprisonment on Marie McCarthy for indecent assault of a 15 year old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}