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1. We come now to the appeals against sentence, and these have caused us some considerable anxiety. Mr. Sharwood argues very strongly that the offences of robbery and false imprisonment with which we are concerned are certainly no less serious than the ordinary "confrontation robbery" with weapons, for which sentences of up to 3 ½ or 4 years are not uncommon at the present time. With that we must agree. The difficulty arises because these two men were not - and this seems to be accepted - the le