Delay between offence and sentencing attributable to the offender's own concealment of the crime is not a significant mitigating factor, though the court may give credit for rehabilitation achieved during the period. A confession followed by recantation and a contested trial does not establish remorse warranting significant mitigation. A sentence that will consume much of an offender's remaining useful life is not necessarily 'crushing' where the gravity of the offence — particularly murder involving prolonged torture — demands a sentence at the highest end of the range.
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