The overriding requirement when sentencing for multiple offences is that the aggregate sentence must not lack proportion to the total criminality of the offender's conduct. The desirability of making sentences concurrent or cumulative according to the connectedness of offences must be subordinated to this principle. Where achieving a just aggregate requires it, the preferred approach is to overlap or make concurrent appropriate individual sentences rather than to shorten them and make them cumulative, as the latter course is more misleading when appearing on a criminal record.
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