Partial accumulation of sentences for multiple sexual offences committed during a single episode is appropriate where each offence involves separate criminality that cannot be encompassed in the sentence for another offence. The decision confirms that there is no rule requiring concurrent sentences merely because offences occurred on the same occasion or as part of the same course of conduct.
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