Where a co-offender has been sentenced on an incomplete or erroneous view of the facts, the second sentencing judge should treat that sentence as significantly less relevant, or depending on the degree of error, as irrelevant to the parity principle. A demonstrated error in one co-offender's sentencing does not give rise to a justifiable sense of grievance in the other co-offender. The passing observation in Nguyen v The Queen that a sentencing mistake could operate to a co-offender's advantage through parity should not be followed.
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