An aggregate sentence of 7 years' imprisonment for two bank robberies committed on the same day (one in company, one alone), with starting points of 6 years and 5 years respectively reduced by 33% and 40% for early guilty pleas and co-operation, is within the range of a sound discretionary judgment. The totality principle does not require further reduction where the offences were separate and distinct, committed against different victims.
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