Patrick Maggs secures 3 year reduction in sentence for a “premeditated, cynical, violent and cowardly” robbery on the home of two elderly men.
In R v Smith (John Leonard William) & Ors [2013] EWCA Crim 2102 the Court of Appeal remarked upon “his very helpful grounds of appeal” in reducing a sentence of 13 ½ years to one of 10½ years, where masked offenders used baseball bats to injure in the hope of securing £113,000.
