The parity principle applies to co-offenders charged with different offences, but where the differences between the charges (including substantially different maximum penalties), the offenders' respective roles, and their subjective circumstances are sufficiently marked, no justifiable sense of grievance arises from a significant disparity in sentences, including where one offender receives a custodial sentence and the other does not.
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