{"id":269,"date":"2006-02-03T00:05:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:05:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-02-03T00:05:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:05:46","slug":"attorney-general-to-appeal-unduly-lenient-sentences-given-to-baby-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General to appeal unduly lenient sentences given to baby rapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Attorney General<\/strong> is to ask the <strong>Court of Appeal<\/strong> to increase the sentence given to the Webster (40) and French (19) who raped a 12-week-old baby and took photographs of their abuse of her. <\/p>\n<p>Webster was jailed for life after he pleaded guilty to rape, indecent assault, permitting indecent images to be taken of a child and making indecent images.&nbsp; French received a five year jail sentence and was given an extended licence period of five years after she admitted the same charges.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The Attorney will ask the Court of Appeal to find the tariffs (12 years in the case of Webster) <strong>unduly lenient<\/strong> and to increase them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General is to ask the Court of Appeal to increase the sentence given to the Webster (40) and French (19) who raped a 12-week-old baby and took photographs of their abuse of her. Webster was jailed for life after he pleaded guilty to rape, indecent assault, permitting indecent images to be taken of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}