— The appellant had been convicted of diminished responsibility manslaughter, for shooting a man in a pub with a crossbow, and given a life sentence with a minimum term of 7 years and 61 days alongside a hybrid order under s45A. He argued that he ought instead to have received a restricted hospital order or, alternatively, that the tariff was manifestly excessive. The Court of Appeal decided that the trial judge had correctly followed Sentencing Council, 'Manslaughter: Definitive guideline' (1 November 2018) in respect to both grounds, noting in particular that the court should consider a hybrid order prior to a hospital order, that the court should reflect upon the importance of the penal element in a sentence, and that the judge had been entitled to conclude when considering recall and wider public protection that a hybrid order was better in this case.
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