A sentence of eight years imprisonment with parole eligibility after one-third is within the appropriate range for trafficking in methylamphetamine over a 38-week period with a street value of $190,000, where the offender is a mature person with an extensive criminal history including drug offences, even where the trafficking was partly to subsidise a failing business and support the offender's own drug habit.
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