Where onerous conditions of remand custody are directly caused by an offender's assistance to authorities and threats to life resulting from that assistance, the case falls within an exceptional class warranting a combined discount for plea and assistance exceeding 40 per cent, notwithstanding the general trend towards reducing the customary range of combined discounts. The parity principle may apply even where co-offenders are charged with different offences on different factual bases, if the sentences are disproportionate to the degree of difference in culpability.
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