No home detention for Jago

Tim Jago appealed against both his convictions and sentence for indecent assaults. The Court of Appeal has upheld both. He argued that he should have got home detention. I am glad he failed, as serious sexual offending should generally result in prison.

They noted previous offending:

Mr Jago has previous convictions for speeding, drink driving, driving while suspended, and failing to answer bail, so he does not have a clean criminal record to which to point, particularly given some of that prior offending was alcohol-related as was the offending here.

The speeding and even the drink driving is not that relevant. But driving while suspended is a big deal as is not answering bail.

They concluded:

This was serious and repeated sexual offending against a child on one occasion and young persons on two others, that has had significant and long-lasting effects on the complainants. It was open to the Judge to consider that imprisonment was the least restrictive sentence appropriate in these circumstances.

I agree.