Where co-offenders are sentenced by different judges, the Court of Appeal will conduct a detailed comparison across all relevant sentencing factors to assess whether disparity gives rise to a justifiable sense of grievance. Evidence of assistance to police not placed before the sentencing judge may be received on appeal to avoid a miscarriage of justice, but the court may moderate the informer's discount where the anticipated risks have not materialised in the period since sentence.
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