Even where an offender provides significant cooperation under ss 13A and 13B of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld) and AB v The Queen cooperation that materially assists the prosecution of principals in a wholesale drug trafficking operation, a period of actual imprisonment may be required where the offender's involvement was real and significant, including storage of large quantities of Schedule 1 drugs. A wholly suspended sentence for aiding a wholesale trafficking business may be disproportionate to the objective gravity of the offending.
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