Hamilton brute serving life for murder has sentence cut by one month
dailyrecord.co.ukiOS - Android However, last Thursday, his lawyer Donald Findlay QC urged appeal judges to reduce the punishment part of the life sentence.He told the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh that the punishment part was excessive and that Blythe could be rehabilitated.He said that Blythe was ‘dragged’ into attacking Mr McMillan through the actions of his girlfriend Amy Newton who had manipulated him for her “own malicious and malevolent purposes”.Blythe had his sentence cut by one month because the trial judge had made a mistake when taking into account how much time he had spent on remand before his trial.Lord Harrower believed Blythe had spent nine months on remand when the accused had actually spent 10 months on remand.Head over to our new.
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