Sentencing statistics showing a sentence at the upper end of the range for drug supply offences are not determinative of manifest excess where the sentencing judge has comprehensively analysed all relevant factors. A background of unsympathetic parenting, without the atmosphere of alcohol abuse, domestic violence and criminal activity described in Bugmy and Munda, carries less mitigating weight. The upper limit of sentence is the maximum set by Parliament, not the upper end of the statistical range.
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