Sentences for perverting the course of justice will ordinarily be cumulative upon the sentence for the primary offence, not partially concurrent, because such offences are wholly discrete exercises of criminality from the underlying offence. The fact that the attempt to pervert the course of justice did not succeed is of far less significance than in the case of an attempt to commit a substantive crime.
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