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The moment the Court of Appeal read the victim impact statements The first thing to understand about this case is the moment that mattered most. It was not the original sentencing. It was not the guilty plea. It was the reading of what those teenage girls had to say about what a 45-year-old man from Sunderland did to them, in a hotel room and in a car, over a period of time, while they were children. When Detective Constable Hanna Liddle of Durham Constabulary addressed the Court of Appeal, her words were not legal argument. They were the work of a police officer who had sat across from those girls: “The consequences of Galsinh’s actions will outlast any sentence but having seen the impact of what he has done we believed the sentence should be longer. He subjected the girls to an horrendous ordeal and continues to show no remorse for what he has done. The girls have been incredibly brave throughout this whole process, and we hope this extension to the sentence will help them as they try to find a way forward with their lives.” That statement captures the entire architecture of the case. The original 12-year-and-three-month sentence…