A deliberate decision to await the outcome of a co-offender's appeal does not constitute a satisfactory explanation for delay in filing an application for leave to appeal against sentence. Where a co-offender's sentence was reduced for psychological conditions peculiar to that co-offender, the applicant cannot claim a justifiable sense of grievance merely because the same sentence was imposed despite arguably lesser culpability, where the sentencing judge properly balanced the different mitigating factors.
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