[2011] EWCA Crim 98

When the principal participants in a conspiracy to import significant quantities of cocaine had pleaded guilty, a two-year delay before sentencing to allow for the trials of lesser players gave rise to a valid argument that a reasonable time had elapsed and that the sentencing judge should have reduced the sentence to reflect the excessive delay.

CA (Crim Div) (Leveson LJ, Pitchford LJ, Judge Warwick McKinnon (Recorder of Croydon))

04/02/2011