A total effective sentence of 6 years' imprisonment for two premeditated knife robberies targeting vulnerable victims, committed a week apart by a 27-year-old first-time prisoner who pleaded guilty with a 20% discount, does not breach the first limb of the totality principle. The identification of a few broadly comparable cases with different sentences will rarely demonstrate error in totality challenges, particularly where different offenders received different total sentences for different collections of offences.
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