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Couzens is 'filled with self-loathing and abject shame'
Jim Sturman QC has started his mitigation in defence of Wayne Couzens.
He tells the Old Bailey: "Nothing I say is meant to minimise the horror of what the defendant did that night."
Mr Sturman said that he has offered no excuse for what he did.
He added: "Accepts that he will receive a harsh sentence... he is filled with self-loathing and abject shame - and he should be."
There is little mitigation, the lawyer said. But "the battle ground is whether it should be full life sentence".
(Telegraph)
Couzens is 'filled with self-loathing and abject shame'
Jim Sturman QC has started his mitigation in defence of Wayne Couzens.
He tells the Old Bailey: "Nothing I say is meant to minimise the horror of what the defendant did that night."
Mr Sturman said that he has offered no excuse for what he did.
He added: "Accepts that he will receive a harsh sentence... he is filled with self-loathing and abject shame - and he should be."
There is little mitigation, the lawyer said. But "the battle ground is whether it should be full life sentence".
(Telegraph)