R v McCann

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
JudgeLORD JUSTICE ROSKILL
Judgment Date21 December 1971
Neutral Citation[1971] EWCA Crim J1221-11
Judgment citation (vLex)[1971] EWCA Crim J1221-14
Date21 December 1971
Docket NumberNo. 1843/B/71

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3 cases
  • R v Looseley
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 October 2001
    ...LR 45, R v Burnett [1973] Crim LR 748 and R v Ameer [1977] Crim LR 104. Entrapment was regarded as a mitigating factor in, for instance, R v McCann (1971) 56 Cr App R 8 In R v Sang [1980] AC 402 your Lordships' House affirmed the Court of Appeal decisions of R v McEvilly (1973) 60 Cr Ap......
  • R v Sang
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 13 December 1978
    ...which he would not otherwise commit, still more so if the police themselves take part in carrying it out." 42 Both in Birtles and in McCann the Court reduced the sentences, treating the possibility of the appellant having been incited to commit the crime charged as operating in mitigation o......
  • R v Arnough
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 15 June 1973
    ...nevertheless, to have a hope as regards reduction of sentence. The authorities to which he referred were the Birtles case (supra) and R. v McCann [1972] 56 Cr. App. R. 359. In both of these cases sentences were reduced on the ground that there was a possibility that the appellant in each ca......