Description
On 26 July 2004 in the High Court at Glasgow the appellants, together with two co-accused, went to trial on an indictment containing a section 4(3)(b)
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 charge. On 29 July, after there had been a trial within a trial on the first and second day and after the evidence of a number of witnesses had been heard in the trial itself, each of the appellants tendered pleas of guilty to an amended charge. On 18 August 2004 the judge passed the following sentences:-Joseph Wright: 21 years imprisonment with effect from 28 July 2004, no discount being given for his plea of guilty Kevin Connolly: 12 years imprisonment with effect from 28 July 2004, discounted from 13 years for his plea of guilty John Wallace: 19 years imprisonment with effect from 29 December 2003, discounted from 20 years for his plea of guilty and with 6 months attributable to the bail aggravation Robert Campbell: 21 years imprisonment with effect from 8 March 2004, discounted from 22 years for his plea of guilty. Here each appellant appealed to the Court on the ground that the sentences passed were excessive.
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