A total effective sentence of 5 years' imprisonment for six armed robberies committed over a 13-hour period, where five involved pretending to be armed and one involved a syringe, does not breach the totality principle where the offender had significant mitigating factors including early guilty pleas, voluntary surrender, threats from drug creditors, and no prior imprisonment. The one transaction rule does not require concurrent sentences for multiple offences constituting a continuing episode where wholly concurrent sentences would not properly reflect the total criminality.
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