A combined discount for guilty plea and assistance to authorities should very exceptionally, if at all, exceed 40 per cent in the absence of evidence the offender will spend the sentence or a substantial part of it in more onerous conditions. When assessing post-sentence assistance, the court must consider the reduction already given at sentence and the overlapping effect of multiple favourable features, such that the total allowance may be less than the sum of the parts.
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