This 62 year-old defendant was convicted at the Inner London Crown Court of GBH following an attack on his partner, which left her in a life-threatening condition. He stripped his victim below the waist then over the course of several hours repeatedly kicked and stamped on her abdomen and groin, breaking a rib and rupturing her spleen.

He was unanimously convicted by a jury despite the fact that the victim gave ‘hostile’ evidence on oath, saying that Brown was not responsible for the attack and that she had been set upon by two teenage girls. Her original statement in which she blamed Brown was read to the Jury under the hearsay provisions of CJA 2003, and the Jury preferred this evidence to her evidence from the witness box.

He was sentenced to IPP, with a nominal determinate sentence of 9 years. On 11th May he appealed against this sentence. The Court of Appeal held that the trial Judge was right to find him dangerous, and that the notional determinate sentence of 9 years could not be criticised.

Prosecuted at Inner London Crown Court and CA by Matthew Paul.