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| Penistone hammer attack: Dad's life sentence increased | Penistone hammer attack: Dad's life sentence increased |
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| A man who tried to kill his three children and step-daughter in a hammer attack before a crashing his car at 92mph has had his jail term increased. | A man who tried to kill his three children and step-daughter in a hammer attack before a crashing his car at 92mph has had his jail term increased. |
| Owen Scott had been jailed for life for four counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving after the crash near Penistone, South Yorkshire. | Owen Scott had been jailed for life for four counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving after the crash near Penistone, South Yorkshire. |
| Scott, 29, of Hampshire, had his minimum term increased by the Court of Appeal from 14 to 24 years. | Scott, 29, of Hampshire, had his minimum term increased by the Court of Appeal from 14 to 24 years. |
| The children were inside the car when he crashed it into a pub last August. | The children were inside the car when he crashed it into a pub last August. |
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| Two girls, aged seven and eight, and two boys, aged 21 months and nine months, were seriously injured with all four youngsters suffering brain damage in the crash. | Two girls, aged seven and eight, and two boys, aged 21 months and nine months, were seriously injured with all four youngsters suffering brain damage in the crash. |
| As a result of her injuries, one of his daughters will be wheelchair-dependent for the rest of her life. | As a result of her injuries, one of his daughters will be wheelchair-dependent for the rest of her life. |
| Challenging the original sentence, Solicitor General Robert Buckland said the 14-year term for Scott, from Fawley, had been unduly lenient. | Challenging the original sentence, Solicitor General Robert Buckland said the 14-year term for Scott, from Fawley, had been unduly lenient. |
| He said a series of aggravating factors, including the gross abuse of trust and the vulnerability of the young victims, meant the case fell outside normal sentencing guidelines. | |
| Lord Justice Treacy, sitting with two other judges, 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 below was unduly lenient." | |
| Scott had been in a cocaine-induced psychotic episode, when he deliberately crashed into the Travellers Inn, near Penistone, early on 23 August last year. | |
| The court heard he had collected the children from his former partner's home in Southampton on the pretext of taking them on a shopping trip. | |
| Scott then drove to the Isle of Wight, Liverpool and Greater Manchester before arriving in Huddersfield ahead of the crash, which he claims to have no memory of. | |
| The judge said: "It is clear that some of the children were old enough to understand what the offender was doing whilst those attacks were taking place." | |
| Defence barrister Michelle Colborn further stressed Scott had little recollection of what happened. |