Maund, Aiden

Aiden Maund, along with five co-defendants, was charged with conspiracy to rob in relation to three robberies that took place between the end of April and the middle of May 2010.

He pleaded guilty at Worcester Crown Court on 4th August 2011.

Mr Maund was sentenced in December 2011 to imprisonment for public protection (IPP) with a minimum term of 8 years, less 515 days on remand.

On the same day four of his co-defendants were also given IPP sentences. A sixth man received an IPP sentence on December 20th.

Mr Maund sought leave to appeal against his sentence but leave was refused in May 2012. He applied to the CCRC in March 2017.

Subsequent to Mr Maund’s attempt to appeal, two of his co-defendants successfully appealed against their IPP sentences and saw them replaced with determinate sentences. In doing so the Court said:

“We are concerned that, when sentencing the applicant, the Judge may well have considered the defendants as a group, assessing their dangerousness by reference to the nature of the robberies rather than considering them individually in the light of their different roles”.

Following review, the CCRC decided to refer Mr Maund’s sentence for appeal.

The referral was made on the basis that the factors that caused the Court of Appeal to replace IPPs with determinate sentences in the appeals of his co-defendants could have applied in Mr Maund’s case and that there was therefore a real possibility the Court would similarly amend his sentence.

The CCRC referred the sentence in November 2017.

The Court of Appeal quashed the sentence in May 2018 and substituted it for a 16-year determinate sentence.