A plea of guilty entered after counsel properly advises on the strength of the Crown case and the sentencing differential between plea and trial does not constitute improper pressure vitiating the plea. The mere fact that a person pleads guilty to avoid a more severe sentence does not establish a miscarriage of justice. A sentence of four years and three months imprisonment for grievous bodily harm involving a knife attack causing life-threatening injury to a 13-year-old, with a late guilty plea and no remorse, is within the appropriate range.
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