He's no William Wallace. Nor was William Wallace, in the sense that he wasn't Mel Gibson playing Braveheart.

In real life there's no shame in playing the game by making a formal apology in court for something you should in fact be proud of having done - especially when you've been brutalised while in custody, and know that the judge has it in his power to send you to jail for 15 years, with a likelihood you wouldn't ever come out alive.