JSB171 Lecture 1: LWB238 - Wk5 - Robbery
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Robbery (alternative verdict could be stealing: s575; spratt) Write: robbery is defined in s409 cc as simply stealing with an element of real or threatened actual violence to a person or property, to either obtain or prevent or overcome resistance to its being stolen. It is punished under s411 and is for 14 years imprisonment, unless aggravated under s411(2). It is possible for two persons to commit a robbery jointly without being in company: wisher: physical presence of another is required for an alleged crime to be committed in company . Test is whether such a proximity between co-defendants to enable the inference that the coercive of the group operated, either to embolden or reassure the offender in committing the crime, or to intimidate the victim into submission: button. Then life imprisonment, and (must be charged on indictment: johnson) Write: here [accused] threatened/committed an act of actual violence, [facts], to person/property [facts].
