Just another opportunity for the lawyers to bill another day.
They do indeed like that sort of thing.
For example, people think they're being clever when their solicitor tells them to go "no comment."
Not so.
Particularly in cases where the evidence may be marginal, a straight denial may be enough to knock it on the head then and there. 'No comment" maintains the possibility of a guilty plea in court, which solicitors like as it gives them another payday. Multiple solicitors and police station reps have admitted this to me over the years.
Better just to say "I deny the allegetion completely" and then answer all further questions with complete silence if you want to do your best to avoid being charged in the first place.
So yes, their briefs will have been pushing for pre-sentence reports for no other reason than it keeps them on the gravy train a little longer. It's unlikely to benefit their clients an any tangible way, and kicking the prison sentence can a little further up the road is arguably prolonging the angst on top of the sentence to come, so is not really in their interests.
Their own ridiculous and fanciful denials preclude any viable opportunity to give any mitigation.
