Offenders who do not know each other and act on different instructions may nonetheless be co-offenders in a common criminal enterprise for parity purposes where there is a marked interconnection between their offending — specifically, where the same intermediary arranged for each to deal with the same source in relation to the same drug consignment. A parity comparison between co-offenders must be confined to the specific offence that connects them; unrelated offences committed by one co-offender cannot be used to distinguish the objective gravity of the common offence.
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