A sentencing judge retains discretion to adopt a charitable interpretation of jury verdicts when sentencing on a count where the jury acquitted on a more serious alternative count, and the Court of Appeal will not substitute its own view of the offender's probable involvement. The prosecution's concession as to the appropriateness of one co-offender's sentence constrains the sentencing range available for other co-offenders by reason of parity.
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