Depression and somatisation disorder, without more, do not constitute a mental disorder of sufficient severity to require reduced weight for general deterrence in sentencing for serious offences. Disparity between co-offenders' sentences does not give rise to a justifiable sense of grievance where the difference is explicable by the co-offender's onerous prison conditions, health issues, and prospects of rehabilitation, even where the applicant had no prior record and the co-offender had an extensive criminal history.
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