The Queensland Court of Appeal refused an extension of time for leave to appeal against sentence where the applicant's two-year delay was not satisfactorily explained and his sole ground of appeal was effectively a challenge to conviction, which had already been dismissed in R v Hamade [2011] QCA 152. The Court confirmed that a complaint about conviction cannot be recast as a ground of appeal against sentence, and found no prospect of demonstrating that the sentences were manifestly excessive given the offending involved the rape of a 15-year-old girl.
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