Defendant sentenced to imprisonment for non-driving offences and consecutively for dangerous driving and aggravated vehicle-taking-No separate penalty imposed for other driving offences-Two-year period of disqualification imposed-Judge failing to state for which offences and for what reasons imposed-Correct approach to calculation of extension period-Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988ss.35A, 35B- Sentencing Act 2020 s. 163. "(1)... a person is guilty of aggravated taking of a vehicle if-(a) he commits an offence under s.12(1) above (in this section referred to as a 'basic offence') in relation to a mechanically propelled vehicle; and (b) it is proved that, at any time after the vehicle was unlawfully taken (whether by him or another) and before it was recovered, the vehicle was driven, or injury or damage was caused, in one or more of the circumstances set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subs.(2) below.
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