A head sentence of 25 years' imprisonment with a 16-year non-parole period is within the range of a sound exercise of sentencing discretion for an offender who was the senior Australian operative in a conspiracy to import and traffic approximately 60 kg of MDMA (96 times the commercial quantity), where the offender pleaded guilty but without genuine contrition and had poor rehabilitation prospects. The case provides a useful compilation of comparable sentencing outcomes for large-scale drug importation offences across Australian jurisdictions.
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