A head sentence of three and a-half years' imprisonment suspended after 12 months is within the range of a sound exercise of the sentencing discretion for a principal of a cannabis trafficking syndicate operating at wholesale level over five months. Mitigating factors of voluntary desistance, delay not caused by the defendant, and rehabilitation are relevant but not determinative where the offending was cynically commercial and prolonged.
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