A sentence of 21 years' imprisonment with a 13-year non-parole period was upheld for an active participant in the importation of approximately 100.6 kg of cocaine at 77.8% purity, where the offender played a crucial facilitative role, entered a very late guilty plea on the second day of a retrial, and showed no true remorse. The case provides a sentencing comparator for large-scale cocaine importation offences under s 233B(1)(b) and (c) of the Customs Act 1901 (Cth).
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