Scotland’s Lord Advocate has decided that the Crown should appeal against the sentence of a Lanarkshire man who was spared jail for raping a 13-year-old girl, on the grounds it was “unduly lenient”.
Sean Hogg, 21, was sentenced earlier this month at the High Court in Glasgow to a community payback order of 270 hours of unpaid work after being found guilty of rape.Hogg, from Hamilton, was also put under supervision and added to the sex offenders' register for three years.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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Kenny Donnelly, deputy Crown agent at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, said: “Sentence is quite rightly the domain of the independent judiciary.“However, the law provides for some limited circumstances in which prosecutors have the right to appeal against sentences.“The appeal court has set a high test to be satisfied for this to happen.
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