A MAN with an antisocial behaviour order who got in a pub brawl when he was supposed to be on an alcohol detox course has lost a legal challenge to his jail sentence.
Despite taking part in a gang attack on a takeway driver, Daniel Rumley walked free from Reading Crown Court in April last year after he was handed a 12-month suspended sentence and ordered to complete an alcohol rehab course. But 26-year-old Rumley, of Larkhill Road, Abingdon, quit the course and weeks later was arrested after a fight outside a pub in Oxford. This time he was given a one-year prison sentence.
Two senior judges, sitting at London’s Court of Appeal, waved away claims by his lawyers that the sentence was too harsh and upheld the jail term.
His lawyers claimed on Thursday the jail term was “manifestly excessive” considering he had completed part of his rehab course with flying colours.
But Mr Justice Bean, sitting with Mr Justice Hickinbottom, said it was not enough to have only finished one section of the probation requirement, and upheld the one-year sentence.
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