article_snippet: Apart from the effect of your recall, you will be entitled to release from the sentence I now impose at the halfway point, thus three years from today, which would be March 9, 2018,' said Judge JohnJudge John. '
article_snippet: Because of the licence recall, you will not be released until May 13, 2018, a mere seven weeks later. '
article_snippet: Because Parliament in its wisdom chose in 2003 to abolish the power to return a prisoner to custody to serve the unexpired portion of licence and then to order the fresh sentence to run consecutively to that recall, the effect of my order is that you will literally not serve a day longer for the offences for which you are now sentenced.'