Coore, Sheldon

Sheldon Coore pleaded guilty to robbery at Bradford Crown Court in June 2005. He received a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) with a minimum tariff of two years and six months.

Mr Coore tried unsuccessfully to appeal against his sentence and applied to the CCRC in August 2025. He was still in custody.

Reviewing this case, 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 there was a real possibility the Court would find that the sentencing judges did not give sufficient weight to the age and immaturity of Mr Coore when assessing his dangerousness and future risk.

The Court had recently overturned several similar IPP/DPP sentences. On 23 April 2026, two CCRC referrals were allowed and the sentences quashed, together with those in three other indeterminate sentence cases, which were not CCRC referrals; see the indeterminate sentences of five IPP/DPP prisoners were quashed.

The CCRC referred the sentence in July 2026.