Read the full judgment text of CACC 118/1998 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 10 March 1999.
1. We have dealt with the facts in our judgments on the application for leave to appeal against convictions. When he passed sentence the Judge referred to the very large amounts of money which were being offered to these young men and the considerable temptation this would have constituted. He was also mindful of the fraud that it was proposed should be practised on the racing community at large. He considered that 3 years was an appropriate starting point for each of these offences and 4 years