Where an offender suffering from a depressive illness causally connected to drug offending has no prior criminal history, good rehabilitation prospects, and played a limited role (warehousing drugs for approximately one month), an aggregate sentence of 9 years with a 6-year NPP for large commercial drug supply offences is manifestly excessive. The well-established principle that general deterrence may be given less weight for offenders with mental illness must be given effect in the sentencing remarks, not merely acknowledged through acceptance of the underlying evidence.
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