A co-offender's guilty plea during the Covid-19 pandemic, combined with other differentiating factors such as younger age and loss of opportunity for Youth Justice Centre sentencing, can justify a substantial disparity in sentences without breaching the parity principle. The two limbs of Guden (additional burden of imprisonment and loss of opportunity to settle permanently) are satisfied where the sentencing judge devotes specific attention to deportation in the sentencing remarks.
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