Again second hand - I am told that KC missed the initial sentencing hearing as he had to "urgently" attend hospital concerning his heart. The cynic in me thinks that this seems like just another piece of calculated fraud. *Except* that this was apparently said to the court by his lawyer. One hopes that professionalism in a lawyer would not permit him to say that without seeing and hopefully presenting to the court, hard evidence to that effect.
That's basically right. He checked into the hospital the day before he was due to be sentenced with an alleged heart complaint. The judge ordered that he must surrender to police within an hour of being discharged.
When he did appear for sentencing, counsel told the judge that he had been informed that Crellin only had a short time to live. The judge, who is nobody's fool, asked to see the documentary evidence and asked the source of the information. The answer? It had come from Crellin himself.
The judge was, apparently, quite outspoken in his response to that....