HC Deb 18 April 1991 vol 189 c209W
Mr. Cryer

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library guidelines issued to the courts dealing with rape cases regarding sentencing and the relevant factors to be taken into account.

Mr. John Patten

Guidance was given by the Court of Appeal in Rv. Billam (1986). The judgment is in the All England Law Reports for 1986, a copy of which is in the Library.

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