Where a sentencing judge imposes identical sentences on co-offenders despite expressly recognising that one should receive a more severe sentence, the parity principle does not require the Court of Criminal Appeal to reduce the less culpable offender's sentence if that sentence is otherwise appropriate. The error lies in the co-offender's sentence being too lenient, not in the applicant's sentence being too harsh.
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