387 Failure by offender to provide agreed assistance: review of sentence
Sentencing Act 2020 (2020 c 17) | Legislation

Chapter 4
Assistance for Prosecution etc: Review of Sentence

Reference back to court for review of sentence

387  Failure by offender to provide agreed assistance: review of sentence

(1)     This section applies if—

(a)     the Crown Court has passed a sentence on an offender in respect of an offence,

(b)     the sentence (“the original sentence”) is a discounted sentence in consequence of the offender's having offered in pursuance of a written agreement to give assistance to the prosecutor or investigator of an offence, and

(c)     the offender knowingly fails to any extent to give assistance in accordance with the agreement.

(2)

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