EARBY: Attorney General says baby killer’s 24-year jail sentence ‘not too lenient’
The Attorney General has said that the 24-year-minimum sentence handed to Earby baby killer Darren Newton will not be referred to the Court of Appeal because it is not too lenient.
He was convicted earlier this month of the murder of his girlfriend’s baby Charlie Hunt after a series of “happy-slapping” attacks he filmed on his mobile phone.
Anyone can complain to the Crown Prosecution Service that a sentence is too lenient.
The case may then be passed to the Attorney General and then on to the Court of Appeal.