Where an offender is convicted of multiple offences, sentencing judges should moderate individual sentences and direct partial cumulation rather than imposing the total effective sentence on a single count with all others concurrent; failure to do so makes the sentence unnecessarily vulnerable on appeal. Where a co-offender has received a manifestly lenient sentence, the proper approach is not to match the applicant's sentence to the lenient one but to take it into account in the broad exercise of the sentencing discretion. Serious psychiatric illness is not solely mitigatory — it may also indicate the offender poses a greater danger to the community.
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