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The Court of Appeal has ruled that a six-year sentence imposed on a violent sex offender who groomed and coerced two teenage girls was “unduly lenient.”
Three appeal judges doubled 28-year-old Lee Pearson’s prison term, following an appeal hearing in London yesterday.
Lord Justice Fulford said Recorder Anton Lodge, presiding at Sheffield Crown Court, had imposed a sentence which was lenient to a “significant degree.”
He said a 12-year term reflected the “violence and coercion and degradation” that had accompanied the offences.
