A four-year age difference between an adult offender (almost 21) and a juvenile co-offender (just turned 17) is a feature of significance capable of distinguishing the two for parity purposes. Where co-offenders are sentenced under completely different regimes (adult court and Children's Court), direct parity comparisons are inappropriate, though the co-offender's sentence is not wholly irrelevant. Even where some disparity exists, the court will not intervene if the result would be a sentence disproportionate to the objective and subjective criminality involved.
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