Gamage, Simeon

Simeon Gamage was convicted at Wolverhampton Crown Court in 2010 for two robbery offences involving the theft of purses, mobile phones, cash and bank cards the previous year when he was 24. He pleaded guilty to one of the counts but was convicted of both. He received a sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) with a minimum term of two years and six months.  

Mr Gamage attempted to appeal his sentence, but the Full Court found, in December 2007, that the sentence was neither wrong in principle nor excessive. At the time of the referral, he remained subject to his IPP and was still in custody. He applied to the CCRC in October 2025. 

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 in each 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 Gamage’s 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.