Jim acted for LW who received a suspended sentence (after a period of deferred sentence) for a single count of section 20 wounding at Oxford Crown Court. The defendant’s case attracted considerable notoriety with many sections of the media calling for a more severe sentence and criticising the sentence as being too lenient, the defendant had been a medical student studying at Oxford University at the time of the offence and the case attracted extensive international and national media coverage.
Suspended sentence for student who grievous bodily harm (wounding)
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