The presence of seven of the eleven Ponfield aggravating factors, including professional planning, prior record for like offences, elderly victim, repeated incursions, and high value of stolen property, justified a sentence towards the top of the statistical range for break, enter and steal under s 112(1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW). A disparity of double the sentence between co-offenders (6 years vs 3 years) was held justified where the more heavily sentenced offender had an extensive criminal history and the co-offenders were young first offenders with good rehabilitation prospects.
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