In drug importation cases involving co-offenders with similar personal circumstances, the role of each offender in the hierarchy of the enterprise — particularly the distinction between an organiser who liaises with overseas suppliers and a co-offender who arranges domestic logistics — can justify a material disparity in sentences without infringing the parity principle. A sentencing judge's use of language such as 'only marginally less serious' must be read in the context of the judge's detailed factual findings about each co-offender's role.
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