{"id":76367,"date":"2016-11-22T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8893d627ec6a28387f82e5521f290369"},"modified":"2016-11-22T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:00:41","slug":"press-release-serving-prisoner-to-spend-longer-in-prison-after-sexually-assaulting-another-inmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=76367","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Serving prisoner to spend longer in prison after sexually assaulting another inmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Court of Appeal has today increased the sentence of serving prisoner, John Christon, for sexually assaulting a fellow prisoner in 2 separate attacks over Christmas 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Christon, 27, was serving a sentence for breaching his notification requirements at HMP Nottingham when he committed the offences. Christon pleaded guilty to multiple charges of sexual assault and sexual assault by penetration, and received a 9 month sentence at Nottingham Crown Court in September.<\/p>\n<p>Following a referral by Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC MP, the Court of Appeal has increased the sentence to 5 years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, the Attorney General said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI referred this case to the Court of Appeal as I believe the original sentence did not reflect the particularly violent nature of the attacks that the victim was subjected to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope this serves as reassurance that crimes of this nature will be taken seriously by the Courts, regardless of the victim\u2019s current status as a prisoner.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court of Appeal has increased the sentence of serving prisoner following Attorney General referral<\/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\/76367"}],"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=76367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}