Where an offender is charged with possession of an unregistered handgun, the presence of a silencer and additional ammunition found with the handgun may properly be treated as aggravating features of the possession count without infringing the De Simoni principle, provided those potential offences are less serious than the charged offence. A belief that one is still in a relationship does not reduce moral culpability for a premeditated armed confrontation arising from that relationship.
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