A COURT of Criminal Appeal in the matter of David Walter Allen was not reported correctly in Monday's Port News.
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Allen pleaded guilty to two charges - sexual intercourse with a child under 10 and kidnapping.
He was sentenced in the District Court on February 11, 2009.
On the sexual intercourse charge he was sentenced to 14 years with a non-parole period of 10 years.
On the kidnapping charge he was sentenced to eight years with a non-parole period of six years.
Allen appealed the severity of these sentences.
On March 16, the CCA allowed only part of the appeal. It reduced the kidnapping sentence to six years with a non-parole period of four years.
Given the kidnapping sentence was to be served concurrently with the sexual intercourse sentence, the change effectively makes no difference to the amount of time Allen will spend in jail.
He will still serve 10 years for the sexual intercourse offence. He will be first eligible for parole on September 14, 2020.
