A sentence of nine years imprisonment for breaking and entering a gun shop and stealing 55 firearms is not manifestly excessive where the offender played a significant role in planning and executing the offence and the firearms were intended for sale on the black market with the likelihood of use in criminal activity. A one-year differential between co-offenders is justified where one was the planner and the other a lookout, even where the lookout had a worse criminal history.
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