A suspended sentence of two years imprisonment for a planned break enter and steal involving property valued at $45,000, committed by an offender with a criminal record who was subject to community service orders, was held not manifestly inadequate where there were reasonable prospects of rehabilitation and significant delay of two years between arrest and sentence not attributable to the offender. The residual discretion on Crown appeals may independently justify non-intervention where the offender demonstrates continuing rehabilitation after sentence.
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