A sentence of six years' imprisonment is within the appropriate range for trafficking in cocaine and MDMA over more than 20 months where the offender was a courier who progressed to a management role in a sophisticated operation, notwithstanding the absence of prior criminal history, guilty pleas, and positive character references. The characterisation of a role involving delivering drugs to couriers, collecting money, moving the drug phone, and arranging courier shifts as being 'in the management area' rather than merely a courier role was upheld.
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