Overview
- The family, calling the prison term a disgrace, filed an Unduly Lenient Sentence referral on March 14 and say they are still waiting for an update.
- Joseph Jones, 22, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced March 13 to three and a half years and must serve two years four months before release on licence.
- The fatal assault followed a brief exchange outside an Exmouth bar on December 12, when Yilmaz said “you’re a Brummie” and Jones replied he was from Wolverhampton before a single punch left Yilmaz unconscious; he died four days later.
- The Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme lets the Attorney General ask the Court of Appeal to review a Crown Court sentence within 28 days if it is thought to be too light.
- A petition by Yilmaz’s relatives calling the sentence disproportionate has drawn more than 4,000 signatures as they campaign to warn about the deadly risk of one-punch attacks.