When sentencing for Commonwealth offences, the utilitarian value of a guilty plea and the offender's willingness to facilitate the course of justice are conceptually distinct factors that must be separately addressed where the latter has been raised in submissions and conceded by the Crown. A sentencing judge may not characterise an offender's role as 'intermediate' in a criminal enterprise when the structure and participants of the enterprise are largely unknown; the offender must be sentenced on the basis of what they actually did. A pre-discount sentencing disparity of 52% between co-offenders was held to be a marked disparity not reasonably explained by the differences in their roles.
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