A sentence of 15 years' imprisonment for a 60-year-old offender with chronic respiratory illness was held to be crushing, as it would destroy any reasonable expectation of useful life after release. The sentence was reduced to 12 years with a 6-year non-parole period. While parity with co-offenders is relevant, personal circumstances including age, health, guilty plea, and absence of prior convictions may require departure from sentences imposed on co-offenders in the same operation.
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