Bees, Harry

Harry Bees, then aged 17, was convicted at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court in 2007 of conspiracy to rob and wounding with intent after he conspired with eight other individuals to rob rail network passengers of their belongings. He was sentenced to detention for public protection (DPP) with a tariff of five years, less 69 days spent on remand.  

Mr Bees was unsuccessful in appealing his sentence in November 2010, and he applied to the CCRC in July 2025.  

Reviewing this cases, the CCRC considered the impact of recent Court of Appeal judgments, in particular R v Williams [2024] EWCA Crim 686 and R v Davis & Others [2026] EWCA Crim 743 and concluded that in this case there was a real possibility the Court would find that the sentencing judge did not give sufficient weight to age and immaturity when assessing Mr Bees’ dangerousness and future risk.   

The Court had recently overturned several similar IPP/DPP sentences. On 23 April, two CCRC referrals were allowed and the sentences quashed, together with those in three other indeterminate sentence cases, see the indeterminate sentences of five IPP/DPP prisoners were quashed.

The CCRC referred the sentence in August 2026.