The case confirms that offences against different complainants over different time frames cannot be characterised as one transaction warranting concurrent sentences. However, the totality principle may still require partial rather than full cumulation where mitigating factors, particularly voluntary confession and early guilty plea, render the aggregate sentence more than fairly necessary to achieve sentencing objectives. A sentencing judge is not required to separately articulate the second and third stages of the multiple offence sentencing process in reasons.
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