Where a co-offender's sentence was substantially influenced by an early guilty plea and an offer to give evidence against the accused, the co-offender's sentence is of greatly reduced significance as a parity comparator. A guilty plea entered days before trial in the context of plea bargaining is not, without more, a basis for inferring contrition. On Crown sentence appeals, the Court of Criminal Appeal will impose the minimum sentence that might properly have been imposed at first instance, applying the double jeopardy principle.
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