[2025] EWCA Crim 1172

Two grounds have been added to the renewed application for leave to appeal against sentence. The first is that, because of inadequate representation by his then legal team, the applicant was unfairly precluded from obtaining maximum credit by pleading guilty at the first opportunity. The second is that the applicant was unfairly prejudiced by inadequate representation in not allowing him the informed choice of having a Newton hearing to challenge culpability.