00:00led to an exaggerated perception of threat, a lower tolerance of it and a greater likelihood of a fight response.
00:07None of this goes anywhere near to fully explaining your decision to pull out a knife and to stab Harry Pittman.
00:15This was an extreme reaction to the situation that you found yourself in,
00:19which cannot fully or even substantially be explained by the impact that your conditions had
00:27upon your perception of threat or upon the way that you responded to the perceived threat.
00:34One further mitigating factor is that you are of previous good character.
00:39You have no convictions, reprimands, warnings or cautions recorded against you.
00:44Prior to this incident, you were not known to police or identified as connected to any gangs.
00:51These aggravating factors taken together justify a reduction of two years in what would otherwise be the sentence.
01:01I now come to the sentences.
01:04Arise Lloyd Hall, stand up.
01:08I will deal first with the sentence for possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
01:13As the fact that you took a knife to the scene will be taken into account in your minimum term for murder,
01:18I will pass a concurrent sentence for this offence and I can deal with it briefly.
01:24This is a category A1 offence under the relevant adult sentencing guideline.
01:30If you had been an adult offender, I would have imposed a custodial term of two years imprisonment.
01:36There is a separate sentencing guideline for young offenders.
01:39As you were 16 years old at the time of the offence and 17 at the time of conviction,
01:46I sentenced you to a detention and training order for 16 months for this offence.
01:51As you are now over 18, this is to be treated as if you were sentenced to detention in a young offender institution for the same term.
02:00However, as I have said, this will be served concurrently with the sentence for murder that I am now about to pass.
02:06I now come to the sentence for murder.
02:11The qualifying days that you have spent in custody will count towards the minimum term for murder.
02:17The time spent in custody to date is 675 days.
02:22The appropriate statutory victim surcharge will be applied.
02:27Rhys Lloyd Hall, for the murder of Harry Pittman, I sentenced you to detention at His Majesty's pleasure.
02:33Taking account of all of the relevant circumstances and the aggravating and mitigating factors that I have set out,
02:41the minimum term will be 16 years, minus 675 days to take account of time spent on remand.
02:49This results in a sentence of 14 years and 56 days.
02:55Now sit down but stay there a little while longer.
02:58Finally, I want to explain to you what this means in practice.
03:01You have been sentenced for two offences.
03:05The sentence for possession of an offensive weapon in a public place is a 16-month detention and training order
03:11which will be served alongside the sentence for murder.
03:15You will not serve extra time for this offence.
03:18This is because the fact that you have brought a knife to the scene,
03:21which is the basis for the offensive weapon offence,
03:24has been taken into account in your sentence for murder.
03:27The sentence for murder is fixed by law.
03:32This means there's only one sentence I can give you.
03:34For a person your age, it is called detention during His Majesty's pleasure.
03:39This is a custodial sentence which will be spent in a young offender's institution
03:44and, once you've reached the age of 21, in prison.
03:48Listen, I've decided on the minimum term that you must spend in custody.
03:53The time that you've spent on remand since January 2024 will count towards this minimum term.
04:00I have decided that the shortest length of term that you must stay in custody
04:04is 16 years minus the 675 days that you've already spent on remand.
04:10The minimum term that is left is 14 years and 56 days.
04:16That does not mean that you will automatically be released when the minimum term is over.
04:21That will be a decision for the parole board.
04:24The parole board are a group of people who decide if it's safe for a person to leave custody.
04:30After you've spent the minimum term in custody,
04:33they will decide if you can leave then or not.
04:35If they decide it's not safe, then you'll stay in custody for a longer time.
04:41When you do leave custody, you will be on licence for the rest of your life.
04:46This means that if you commit further offences or do certain other things,
04:50you may be brought back to custody.
04:52You can take him down.
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