When assessing gravity and moral culpability in sentencing, the focus should be on the features present in the offending rather than the absence of aggravating factors. A differential in sentences between co-offenders does not breach the parity principle where it is rationally explicable by differences in role, criminal history, rehabilitation prospects, and the compressive effect of the totality principle on a co-offender sentenced for a larger number of offences.
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