Where an offender provides substantial assistance to law enforcement authorities that leads to the conviction of another offender, a sentencing judge must state the fact and extent of any sentence reduction in open court pursuant to s 8(5) of the Sentencing Act 1995 (WA). Failure to do so constitutes appellable error. In this case, a discount of approximately 40% was applied for assistance that led to the conviction of a drug supplier in a small community.
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