Read the full judgment text of CACC 000148/1985 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an application for leave to appeal against a sentence of seven years' imprisonment for forcible detention or what is more commonly known as "kidnapping". This Defendant was one of three defendants - all young men - who kidnapped a very young child and bundled him into a service room in a block of flats with the object of obtaining a ransom.