The discount for a guilty plea should reflect only its utilitarian value and should not include an allowance for contrition; the appropriate discount for a plea entered at the first available opportunity is 25%. Where an offender is sentenced for multiple serious drug supply offences committed at different times, there must be at least some measure of accumulation in the overall structuring of individual sentences; wholly concurrent sentences for separate supply offences may be manifestly inadequate. Supply of ecstasy in quantities more than 10 times the large commercial quantity, involving trafficking at a significant level for financial gain, places the offence at least in the middle of the range of objective seriousness for s 25(2) offences.
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