Subjective features such as anti-social personality disorder, employer support, marital support, poor health, and inability to tolerate prison are of minimal weight in sentencing for commercial heroin supply, attempting to pervert the course of justice, and supply while on bail, particularly for an offender with a long criminal record. The parity principle does not apply where co-offenders have materially different records, circumstances, and numbers of offences. The Court of Criminal Appeal has no role in recommending costs from the Suitors' Fund under s 6C of the Suitors' Fund Act 1951.
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