{"id":97098,"date":"2018-10-31T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=537da7fea055963c9c9ff413bc6a477b"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:14:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:14:05","slug":"press-release-sex-offender-has-sentence-increased-following-solicitor-generals-referral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=97098","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Sex offender has sentence increased following Solicitor General\u2019s referral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl has had his sentence increased after the Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, referred his sentence to the Court of Appeal as unduly lenient.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Baker, now 50, carried out a series of sexual assaults against the victim over a period of several years.<\/p>\n<p>Baker was originally sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court in August, where he was given 2 years and 3 months imprisonment. Today, after the Solicitor General\u2019s referral, the Court of Appeal increased his sentence to 4 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the sentence increase, the Solicitor General said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaker repeatedly sexually abused his victim over a number of years, robbing her of her youth. Thanks to the Court of Appeal\u2019s decision today I am satisfied that justice has been done and seen to be done by those who have suffered at his hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Baker&#8217;s sentence is increased to four years after the Solicitor General&#8217;s 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\/97098"}],"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=97098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}