A woman has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for killing a man charged with sexually assaulting young boys on the east London estate where they lived.<\/p>\n
Sarah Sands, 32, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Michael Pleasted, 77, by reason of loss of control.<\/p>\n
Pleasted, who had previous convictions, was on bail awaiting trial when he was killed at his flat in east London.<\/p>\n
He was stabbed eight times and bled to death, the Old Bailey heard.<\/p>\n
‘Determined attack’<\/p>\n
Judge Nicholas Cooke QC said it was a “truly exceptional case” as he reduced her sentenced from seven years to three-and-a-half, taking into consideration her position as a single mother.<\/p>\n
Sands, who was cleared of murder, had armed herself with a knife and carried out a “determined and sustained attack” on Pleasted at his flat in Canning Town, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Pleasted, who also went by the name of Robin Moult, had 24 previous convictions for sexual offences spanning three decades.<\/p>\n
He served sentences of between nine months and six years for sex crimes that included indecent assaults on a boys aged under 16 and under 14.<\/p>\n
However, he was not on the sex offenders register as he committed his offences before it was introduced in 1997.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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