Where offences arising from a single criminal enterprise involve different victims on different counts, wholly concurrent sentences will generally be inappropriate because the sentence for one offence does not impose punishment for the separate criminal conduct constituting the offence against the other victim. The sentencing judge must fix an appropriate sentence for each offence individually before considering cumulation, concurrence and totality.
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