Where an offender is sentenced for offences committed contemporaneously with offences for which substantial sentences have already been imposed, the totality principle requires the court to consider what sentence would have been imposed had all matters been dealt with together, and to ensure the aggregate sentence is not disproportionate to the total criminality involved. Individual sentences that are unobjectionable in isolation may nonetheless be manifestly excessive when the totality of imprisonment is considered.
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