Consecutive and not concurrent prison sentences - Increase of sentence from 10 to 15 years
The Attorney General of the Republic Mr. George Savides has filed an appeal challenging the 10-year concurrent prison sentences imposed by the Nicosia Permanent Criminal Court on a defendant accused in a case of sexual abuse of children as manifestly inadequate.
The Supreme Court, in its decision dated 7 February 2023 and agreeing with the position of the Attorney General, held that the criminal treatment of the defendant through the imposition of concurrent sentences led to the manifest inadequacy of the sentence and that the intervention of the Court of Appeal was justified, which decided that the 5-year prison sentence on a number of charges to which the defendant had been found guilty should be assessed consecutively with the 10-year prison sentence imposed on other charges to which he had been convicted and on which he had also been found guilty. Therefore, the total amount of the prison sentence to be served by the accused amounts to 15 years.
In its judgment, the Court of Appeal commented that the facts of the case and the aggravating factors that had emerged, including the repeated illegal conduct of the accused against three minor victims, made the case in question highly heinous. The need to impose severe and dissuasive penalties for offences such as the present one was stressed once again.
The Attorney General of the Republic was represented by Ms Mikaela Pasiardi, Senior Advocate of the Republic.
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