Where a co-offender's sentence is manifestly inadequate, the disparity does not give rise to a justifiable sense of grievance warranting reduction of the appellant's otherwise appropriate sentence. The 'compounding error' principle applies even where the co-offender was sentenced by the same judge. In multi-offender syndicate cases, parity must be assessed against all co-offenders, not just the one whose sentence is most favourable to the appellant.
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