There is no sentencing principle that offences which are separate and involve different victims cannot be concurrent and must be at least partially cumulative; the principles of proportionality and totality govern the extent of accumulation. The fact that an act intended to pervert the course of justice did not succeed is not relevant to the objective seriousness of the offence.
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