A sentencing judge's reliance on an incorrect date of offending, which materially affects the characterisation of the offender's conduct, constitutes an error warranting appellate intervention and re-exercise of the sentencing discretion. Differences in pre-release periods between co-offenders may be justified by one co-offender's terminal illness making imprisonment more arduous and by an early guilty plea, without giving rise to a justifiable sense of grievance.
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