Where co-offenders are sentenced for a different mix of offences and have different offences taken into account on Form 1 documents, the parity comparison can only be made on a broad and impressionistic basis. The assessment of objective seriousness of a drug offence is a matter for the broadly based discretion of the sentencing judge and will not lightly be interfered with on appeal.
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