London UK – In a recent development, the Court of Appeal has intervened to increase the sentence of Joshua Poulton (28), a drug dealer from Solihull, who sold cocaine worth nearly half-a-million pounds and fled the country to evade arrest.
Poulton’s initial 12-and-a-half-year sentence was elevated to 15 years and three months following a referral by the Solicitor General, Michael Tomlinson KC MP, who deemed the original conviction as unduly lenient.