{"id":67270,"date":"2016-02-04T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=942596594d0a9b0e8325918bcce7bf2a"},"modified":"2016-02-04T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:47:36","slug":"news-story-burnley-rapist-sentenced-to-two-and-half-more-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=67270","title":{"rendered":"News story: Burnley rapist sentenced to two and half more years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>James Patton was convicted at Burnley Crown Court in November last year on a single count of rape after being caught taking advantage of a woman during a drunken night out. He was originally sentenced to 3 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>However, after a referral by the Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP, the Court of Appeal today quashed the original sentence and raised Patton\u2019s jail term to 5 and a half years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, Solicitor General Robert Buckland said:<br \/>\n\u201cGiven the circumstances of this case, I felt that the original sentence passed was unduly lenient and that a longer sentence should have been imposed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case has had a terrible impact on the victim and I hope this increased sentence gives them some additional comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Burnley man who raped a woman during a night out had his 3 year prison sentence increased to 5 and a half years by the Court of Appeal.<\/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\/67270"}],"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=67270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}