R v Fontes (Ricardo)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | MR JUSTICE NELSON |
| Judgment Date | 15 July 2005 |
| Neutral Citation | [2005] EWCA Crim 2103 |
| Date | 15 July 2005 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | No: 05/2520/A8 |
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8 cases
- R v Antony Wright and Another
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R v SH
...which deal with the impact specifically on sentencing of a defendant's old age and its attendant infirmities. We mention briefly two cases: R v Fontes [2005] EWCA Crim 2103 and R v Heron [2009] EWCA Crim 94. In both those cases this court reduced sentences passed on account of the old age o......
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R v Paul Whitehouse and Others
...provided by Mr Buxton, for Scott, with two cases in which the topic has been discussed by this court comparatively recently. The first was R v Fontes [2005] EWCA Crim 2103. This concerned an importation by a male courier of good character aged 75. The drug imported was cocaine. The original......
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R v Creed
...distinguished. (3) R. v. Dennis, Grand Ct., Ind. 3 of 2001, unreported, considered. (4) R. v. Fontes, [2006] 1 Cr. App. R. (S.) 401l; [2005] EWCA Crim. 2103, considered. (5) R. v. Fraser, [2004] EWCA Crim. 2306, referred to. (6) R. v. Gonzalez, [2003] 2 Cr. App. R. (S.) 35; [2002] EWCA Crim......
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Sentences of Imprisonment and the Physically Disabled Prisoner: C (R) v HM Advocate [2019] HCJAC62; 2019 SLT 1243; 2020 SCCR 20
...ordebilitating conditions: for example in R v Anderson [1999] 1 Cr. App. R. (S.) 273; RvW(The Times 26October 2000); R v Fontes [2005] EWCA Crim 2103; R v Mendel Rand [2007] EWCA Crim 840; RvHeron [2009] EWCA Crim 94 and R v Happe [2010] EWCA Crim 893, the appellants had been elderly,and so......