The parity principle does not apply where the comparator offenders were convicted of different crimes committed independently and in different ways, even if part of the same criminal enterprise. Where a sentence accords with the offender's own submissions at first instance, a contention of manifest excess is difficult to sustain absent special circumstances, though the Court retains an obligation to impose the correct sentence as a matter of law regardless of the offender's submissions.
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