Where an offender's significant intellectual disability is diagnosed after sentencing and was not before the sentencing judge, this constitutes a miscarriage of justice warranting resentencing. The Court of Appeal may remit for resentencing rather than resentence itself where unresolved factual controversies require a trial of issues that cannot appropriately be conducted at the appellate level.
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