Part 1: Sentencing of terrorist offenders Section 10: Reduction in appropriate custodial term for assistance to prosecution: England and Wales
Section 10 of this Act allows the court to impose a lower custodial term for serious terrorist offenders who have assisted the prosecution and are sentenced to the serious terrorism sentence which carries a minimum custodial term of 14 years. It does so by inserting a new subsection (4A) to section 74 of the Sentencing Code so that nothing in section 268C(2) or 282C(2) affects the court’s power under subsection (2) to take into account the extent and nature of any assistance to the prosecution given or offered when determining the appropriate custodial term for an offender.