There is no principle or practice in the ACT requiring that sentences for theft related to a burglary be made wholly concurrent with the sentence for the burglary; as a matter of principle, some added penalty should apply to an offence flowing from a burglary as it involves different and additional criminality. The degree of accumulation and concurrency between offences is necessarily fact-specific and within the sentencing judge's wide discretion.
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