A combined discount of 45 per cent for plea of guilty and assistance to authorities is generous where the assistance is limited to identifying co-offenders and undertaking to give evidence, and there is no evidence of harsher custodial conditions. It would be exceptional for a discount of more than 40 per cent to be given absent evidence of harsher custodial conditions. A party cannot assert error on appeal based on a failure by the sentencing judge to take a course that was never sought at first instance.
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