An aggregate sentence of 3 years and 4 months imprisonment for two counts of supply of small indictable quantities of methylamphetamine (8.61g and 6.77g) is within the permissible range where the offender has an extensive criminal history including prior imprisonment for similar offences, committed the second offence while on bail, and has poor rehabilitation prospects. Unrefined sentencing statistics and a small number of purportedly comparable cases are insufficient to demonstrate manifest excess.
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