Michael Alan De Haan
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE EDMUND DAVIES |
| Judgment Date | 09 October 1967 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1967] EWCA Crim J1009-8 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | No. 2706/67 |
| Date | 09 October 1967 |
[1967] EWCA Crim J1009-8
Lord Justice Edmund Davies
Mr. Justice John Stephenson
and
Mr. Justice James
No. 2706/67
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
CRIMINAL DIVISION
Royal Courts of Justice
MR. BRENT appeared as Counsel for the Appellant.
This Court has, after considerable hesitation, come to the conclusion that the application for leave to appeal against his sentence imposed upon this man at the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions on the 30th May last be granted. He then pleaded guilty to two counts of housebreaking and larceny and was sentenced to 2½ years and 2 years consecutive, making 4 years in all. The first of those offences was committed on the 7th March last when nearly £4,000 was stolen from a house in Moor Park. The neighbours of those premises at about 9 p.m. saw a man outside No. 2 Aston's Road whom they later identified as being this Appellant, who was carrying a red suitcase; that was one of the articles which was stolen from No. 4. He drove away in a car; he was later interviewed six weeks later by the Police and when he was charged he said: "The amount was not as much as £3,900". He made no admission of committing the offence in express terms.
As to the second count, on the 10th March about twenty minutes to nine in the evening a Constable saw two men entering the driveway of another house in Moor Park and they heard glass breaking, heard movements inside the house, and saw the Appellant and another man emerge from an archway. The other man was caught and arrested but this Appellant made his getaway, but his car was found nearby. Property worth nearly £1,000 had been stolen from that house. He was arrested on the 15th April for that offence and he then said he had intended to give himself up but he made no other admissions and none of the stolen property has been recovered.
He is 30 years of age; after his National Service he emerged with a character assessment of very good. He has had a number of employers and since November 1966 when he was last released from prison he has been self-employed as a driving instructor. He has several convictions for dishonesty; he was first of all placed on probation in May 1958 for offences of larceny. In August of the same year he was imprisoned for...
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