A sentencing judge may decline to reduce an adult offender's sentence by reference to a manifestly inadequate sentence imposed on a juvenile co-offender in the Children's Court. Partial accumulation of sentences is warranted where offences are committed against separate victims, even where the offences form part of a connected course of conduct, because the sentence for one offence cannot comprehend the criminality of offences against different victims.
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