Mr CP

Mr CP was convicted in October 2005 of 22 counts of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of children.

Mr CP received a sentence of imprisonment for public protection with a minimum term of six months and an indefinite disqualification from working with children.

The CCRC received an application for review of Mr CP’s sentence in February 2009.

Following review, the CCRC concluded that there was a real possibility the Court of Appeal would find that Mr CP ought not to have been sentenced to imprisonment for public protection and would substitute the sentence for a determinate one.

This was in light of the court’s judgment in the case of R v Terrell (2007) where it was found that a sentence of imprisonment for public protection was less likely to be appropriate when only a short notional determinate sentence was imposed.

The CCRC referred the sentence in May 2009.

The Court of Appeal reduced the sentence of imprisonment for public protection to a determinate sentence in December 2009.