Last week Wong’s lawyer Chris Nicholls made an application for a limited driver licence for his client at the same court where he was sentenced. Police opposed the application. The case had been due to be heard on Thursday but was delayed after the presiding judge, Judge Arthur Tompkins, said he was unable to make a decision, because he had cycled the exact route on which Norriss was killed on numerous occasions and the behaviour of drivers on the road had given him cause for concern, though this was “nothing to do with this defendant”. “I would not feel appropriately neutral,” he said before standing down the case, so it could be heard by another judge.