Scotland's top law officer urges judges to devise new guidelines following 'unduly lenient' sentences.
John Todd is one of three rapists whose cases are being considered at Edinburgh's Court of Criminal AppealLord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC made the request after arguing "unduly lenient" punishments have been handed out.
She has gone to the court in the hope of persuading judges to impose lengthier sentences on three men who were recently convicted of rape. Jamie Ironside, 38, was sentenced to four years for violent sexual offences in Inverness, while John Todd, 34, was jailed for five years and 10 months for crimes in Perth, Angus and Fife.Ms Bain told the court that Bertorello's trial judge, Lord Sandison, had failed to take into account all of the circumstances surrounding his offending.
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