THE Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will today appeal over the two-year jail sentence given to a man who attacked his girlfriend outside an Oxford bar.
Canadian Michael Slinn, 46, fled to Thailand while awaiting sentence for the 2005 attack, which left his former girlfriend Nichola Wollage-Joyce with punctured lung, broken ribs and a perforated eardrum. He was found guilty after a trial at Reading Crown Court.
The CPS believes the sentence is “unduly lenient”.
Slinn was extradited back to the UK and was last week jailed at Oxford Crown Court after Judge Christopher Compston heard of his “appalling time” spent in a Thai jail.
Ms Wollage-Joyce yesterday branded the sentence “pathetic”.
The case will be referred to the Attorney General and could, in turn, be reviewed by judges at the Court of Appeal in London.
CPS spokesman Rhoda Nicolay said: “It has been decided the sentence should be referred to the Attorney General for being unduly lenient.”
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