A period of parole is itself a sentence, and a Crown appeal against manifest inadequacy will not succeed merely because the non-parole period for one offence is wholly concurrent with non-parole periods for other offences, where the head sentence contains some accumulation and the parole period imposes real conditions on the offender. The offence of perverting the course of justice by producing a forged letter in support of a bail variation application falls at the lower end of the range for offences under s 319 of the Crimes Act 1900.
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