A total effective sentence of 7 years 4 months' imprisonment for commercial drug dealing (including methylamphetamine at 60% purity) combined with a serious attempt to pervert the course of justice involving exploitation of a vulnerable minor daughter does not breach the first limb of the totality principle. A wholly cumulative sentence for perverting the course of justice is appropriate where the offending is separate from and of a different nature to the drug offences.
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