The Crown is bound by the manner in which it conducted sentencing proceedings, including its reliance on a co-offender's sentence as an appropriate comparator; where the Crown adopts a sentence as an appropriate guidepost without criticism, it cannot later contend on appeal that the resulting sentence is manifestly inadequate. A discount for assistance to authorities under s 16A(2)(h) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) requires the assistance to relate to the investigation of the offence or other offences; the mere surrender of items capable of criminal use without further information does not engage the provision, though it may be taken into account as a general mitigating factor under s 16A(1).
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