Where a co-offender who was the principal of a criminal syndicate receives indicative sentences that are the same as or less than the undiscounted sentences of a subordinate co-offender with a far more favourable subjective case, the subordinate has a justifiable sense of grievance warranting resentencing, provided the reduction does not produce an erroneously lenient sentence. Indicative sentences in aggregate sentence cases are the primary tool for parity comparison between co-offenders.
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