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A judge has criticized the sentencing rules as “a joke” after he was forced not to give additional punishment to a repeat offender who robbed a 70-year-old woman.
Anthony Raymond Callander, 52, was sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court this week to nine months in prison for taking jewelery and watches from the vulnerable pensioner’s Cumbrian home after she fell asleep last November.
He sold the items, which had sentimental value to the woman, to a pawn shop within hours of the robbery, then bombarded the victim with text messages, begging her to drop the case after reporting it to police.
Callander was then called back to prison to serve the remainder of an eight-year sentence for an aggravated robbery committed in 2016, Yahoo News reports.
He and an accomplice had snuck into a couple’s house on Cleator Moor, posing as policemen, then threatening them with a lug wrench before escaping with jewellery.
Earlier this week, in sentencing for the latest crime, Judge Richard Archer said current rules meant the nine-month prison sentence he handed Callander over must run concurrently with the remaining 40 months for the crime. above, which means there is no real punishment.
He told Callander, “It’s a joke because I can’t impose a consecutive sentence on your license revocation and it’s a joke, frankly, because even if I were allowed to impose a consecutive sentence, in my judgment, the sentencing guidelines for robbery They do not do it”. absolutely nothing to indicate how serious his offense was.
“The entirety of that sentence will begin today and will be fully subsumed into the revocation of his current license and, thus serving through 2024, I urge you to look very carefully at the circumstances of this crime and the similarity to the crime for which he was sentenced. eight-year sentence.’
The judge added that the sentencing guidelines for a crime like Callander’s, a community order, did not reflect the seriousness of the crime against older people in their own home.
He said that sentence would be an ‘offensive to justice’.
Anthony Raymond Callander Quick and Facts
- Anthony Raymond Callander, 52, stole jewellery from a pensioner in Cumbria
- He was sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court this week to nine months in jail
- But that sentence must run at the same time as a previous eight-year sentence
- Judge Richard Archer said the nine-month jail term he handed to Callander must run at the same time as his remaining 40 months for the previous crime
- Judge Archer said: ‘I am prevented from imposing a sentence consecutive to your licence recall and it’s a joke’
