A violent thug who threatened to kill his housemate with a machete was given an extra 56 days jail time for wasting a court's time with an unwinnable appeal.
Florin Scorcea, 43, was jailed for five years for assaulting, blackmailing and threatening to kill his housemate in 2020. Judge David Swinnerton also handed the brute a three-year extended licence period when first sentencing him at Liverpool Crown Court.
Scorcea who was legally representing himself, lodged an appeal against the sentence on grounds including that his legal team were incompetent and that his mental health issues were not taken into account. The appeal was first refused by a single judge in August last year and again this week by a panel of three justices at the High Court in London.
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A court can make a loss of time order if the appeal has "no merit" to deter people from making appeals that have no chance of succeeding and wasting court time. It means any time spent in custody since the appeal application was put in will not count towards the sentence.
Rejecting his appeal for a second time, Mr Justice Fraser said: "The legal team at trial represented the appellant to a high standard, involving but not limited to defending a bad character application mounted by the prosecution relating to a previous conviction for attempted murder in Spain."
He added: "There is no arguable basis for any of the grounds. The application is lacking in any arguable merit."
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