The Court synthesised the principles governing the relevance of police entrapment to sentencing for drug trafficking, identifying a spectrum of factors including the manner and degree of police contribution, remoteness of police involvement from the offender, the offender's readiness to participate, and whether the offender was already trafficking. A prior trafficking offence dealt with by community-based order without conviction almost a decade earlier is insufficient to displace the parity principle where a co-offender had a materially lesser role in the offending.
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