A sentence of 8 years imprisonment for deemed supply of 8.53 grams of heroin at 28% purity, with an early guilty plea and no special circumstances of objective seriousness, is manifestly excessive. When sentencing for multiple offences arising from the same criminal activity, the sentencing judge must fix an appropriate sentence for each offence individually before considering questions of cumulation or concurrence; imposing equal and fully concurrent sentences for distinct offences without this analysis constitutes error.
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