Where multiple serious offences arise from a single criminal episode involving a youthful offender with rehabilitation prospects, the totality principle may require reduction of cumulation orders even where individual sentences are appropriate. The non-parole period requires discrete consideration and must not be fixed by mechanical formula; youth and rehabilitation are relevant but cannot undermine punitive and denunciatory purposes.
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