Victims to win new powers to overturn soft sentences
Extra 10 years for dad in bid to kill his 4 kids
OWEN Scott attacked his four children with a hammer and then drove them into a pub wall at 92mph.
Scott, 29, was in a drug-induced psychosis when he tried to kill his children last August.
But he was sentenced to just 14 years behind bars. Solicitor General Robert Buckland challenged the ruling, arguing it was too soft.
Mr Buckland said there were several aggravating factors in the case, including gross abuse of trust and the vulnerability of the young victims, which meant he should have been more severely punished.
Scott had picked up the children from his former partner’s home, saying he was taking them on a shopping trip.
Scott, from Southampton, then drove across the country before deliberately crashing into a pub in Penistone, South Yorkshire, in an attempt to kill them.
Two girls, aged seven and eight, and two boys, aged 21 months and nine months, were seriously injured, with all four suffering brain damage.
The Appeal Court this year ordered Scott to spend an extra 10 years in jail for the attempted murders.
When the sentence was reviewed, Lord Justice Treacy said: “Four young lives have been grievously affected, their mother’s life has been blighted and the level of harm which has been done is very high indeed.
“It follows from that analysis that the sentence imposed was unduly lenient.”