The adverse effect on innocent children of the imprisonment of their parents may be taken into account as one subjective circumstance in the general mix of sentencing factors, but in the absence of exceptional circumstances it is not to be treated as a specific and particular matter warranting a discrete and substantial reduction or elimination of a sentence of imprisonment. Good character is of less weight in sentencing for an ongoing, well-organised commercial criminal enterprise than for a single isolated incident.
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