The Sheffield incest case concerns the conviction in November 2008 in Sheffield Crown Court of a 54-year-old English businessman who, undetected over a period of 25 years, committed incestuous rape of his two daughters, fathering seven surviving children with them. Apparently unrepentant, he received 25 concurrent life sentences and must serve a minimum of fourteen and a half years in prison, having successfully appealed against the sentence: his original sentence of life with a minimum period of 19 years 6 months was ruled to be excessive. After this and a similar incest case in Swindon in 2003, independent inquiries were set up to examine the way in which the case was dealt with by local authorities, the medical profession and child help agencies.
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