A guilty plea entered upon legal advice that it would be in the applicant's interests, where the advice was not incorrect or improper and the applicant made a free choice, does not constitute a miscarriage of justice even if the applicant was in truth innocent. A delay of more than 12 years in seeking to appeal against convictions on guilty pleas cannot be satisfactorily explained where the applicant claims always to have known of his innocence and the delay is not attributable to the discovery of fresh evidence or new legal advice.
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