Where an offender is sentenced for a second group of offences committed at about the same time as a first group already sentenced, the sentencing judge must ask what the likely total effective sentence would have been if all offences were sentenced together. Delay of seven years between offending and sentence, not attributable to the offender, combined with demonstrated rehabilitation during that period, is a powerful mitigating factor that may require significant reduction in sentence.
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