Oyogist has learned that a UK Court of Appeal has declined to increase the jail sentence of a man who choked his lover to death during sex.
The man identified as Sam Pybus, initially baged a jail sentence of four years and eight months in September after he confessed to the manslaughter of mother-of-two Sophie Moss.
Prior to the decision not to increase Pybus’s sentence, the Centre for Women’s Justice and the campaign group had applied for permission to intervene in the case “to ensure the court has information on the latest understanding of the harms of strangulation, and the prevalence and understanding of strangulation within the context of domestic abuse”.
Lady Justice Macur, Lady Justice Carr and Mr Justice Murray who heard the case, said:
“Bearing all the circumstances of this case in mind, we are not persuaded that the judge was wrong in categorisation, was wrong in the uplift he applied… or was wrong in the element of discount that he gave for mitigation and then for his plea of guilty.”
