When sentencing an offender who has served non-declarable custody on activated suspended sentences as a consequence of committing the subject offences while on parole, the totality principle requires the sentencing judge to consider whether the total period of imprisonment attributable to all offences adequately and fairly represents the total criminality involved. The judge is not obliged to reduce the sentence on account of non-declarable custody in every case, but must address the totality question rather than simply treating the non-declarable period as justified by the offender's history of repeated offending.
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