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Legal Terms - Blackmail
Blackmail is the act of threatening someone with financial harm or making an unjustified demand with the intention of gaining money for oneself or another. Threats of violence or harmful action, such as exposing previous immorality or wrongdoing, are examples of menaces (Theft Act 1968 s 21). The maximum sentence for blackmail is 14 years in jail. If the accused cannot demonstrate that he believed he was reasonable in making the demand and that he believed it was appropriate to employ the threats as a form of pressure, the demand will be deemed unwarranted as long as it is made with threats (R v Ashiq [2015] EWCA Crim 1617).
Blackmail is the act of threatening someone with financial harm or making an unjustified demand with the intention of gaining money for oneself or another. Threats of violence or harmful action, such as exposing previous immorality or wrongdoing, are examples of menaces (Theft Act 1968 s 21). The maximum sentence for blackmail is 14 years in jail. If the accused cannot demonstrate that he believed he was reasonable in making the demand and that he believed it was appropriate to employ the threats as a form of pressure, the demand will be deemed unwarranted as long as it is made with threats (R v Ashiq [2015] EWCA Crim 1617).
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