{"id":85104,"date":"2017-10-06T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a237c33c26e36118029b752fbd00d59a"},"modified":"2017-10-06T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:03:09","slug":"press-release-bradford-rapist-will-spend-longer-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85104","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Bradford rapist will spend longer behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A rapist from Bradford will spend longer in prison after Solicitor General Robert Buckland QC MP referred his original sentence to the Court of Appeal as unduly lenient.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Duffy, 26, was aged between 19 and 22 when he carried out his violent attacks against 3 separate women aged between 16 and 19.<\/p>\n<p>Duffy was convicted of 4 counts of rape and 3 counts of causing actual bodily harm at Bradford Crown Court in June this year. He was originally sentenced to 8 years in prison, but the Court of Appeal quashed that sentence and he will now serve 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, the Solicitor General said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese crimes deserved a tougher punishment and I am pleased the Court has seen fit to increase the prison term.  This demonstrates our commitment to victims of sexual offences that they will be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope the increased sentence brings some closure to the victims, and they can begin to move on from what will have been a traumatic time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Duffy has sentence increased from 8 to 13 years<\/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\/85104"}],"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=85104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}