The three Todd principles regarding delay in sentencing (rehabilitation progress, state of suspense, and staleness of crime) are to be applied individually rather than by point-by-point comparison with other delay cases. The only relevant suspense or uncertainty is that experienced after arrest or indication of likely prosecution; an offender's uncertainty about whether the crime will be detected is irrelevant. A sentencing judge adequately accounts for delay by applying the totality principle where the offender could have been sentenced earlier alongside another offence.
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