Where a co-offender's sentence is so remarkably lenient as to constitute an affront to public justice, the disparity does not give rise to a justifiable sense of grievance warranting appellate intervention on parity grounds. The case also illustrates that parity comparisons between adult offenders sentenced in the District Court and juvenile offenders dealt with in the Children's Court will rarely succeed where the cases are materially different.
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