An offender who urges sequential sentencing that results in being sentenced on favourable facts cannot later claim a justifiable sense of grievance under the parity principle when the co-offender receives the same sentence on a different factual basis. The practice of backdating sentences to account for pre-sentence custody, or clearly stating reasons for not doing so, was re-emphasised.
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