A co-offender's youth and absence of prior convictions, contrasted with the applicant's maturity and extensive criminal history (including a strikingly similar prior offence), constitute sound reasons justifying a markedly more severe sentence, even where the co-offender played a more active physical role in the offending. The parity principle does not require similar sentences where such differentiating features exist.
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