Street-level heroin distribution offences attract sentences of upwards of 4 years per offence, with deterrence as the prime sentencing consideration. A drug habit cannot be treated as a mitigating factor in the context of repeated drug distribution. Offending while on bail and a history of persistent defiance of the law exclude mitigation, though they do not aggravate the offence.
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