- The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by 23-year-old Jerome Gibson against his 44-month prison sentence for domestic abuse offences and assaulting a police officer.
- Gibson's legal team argued his sentence was inflated because the investigating officer used Microsoft Copilot to draft a victim personal statement.
- The officer instructed the AI tool to create a statement intended to make a judge weep and achieve the highest possible harm category for sentencing.
- Judges ruled that while the officer's use of AI was deplorable, the facts relied upon were genuine victim statements rather than AI hallucinations and did not lengthen the sentence.
- The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that the police officer responsible for generating the statement has been removed from frontline duties.
IN FULL
