Where sexual offences against multiple victims over an extended period involve coercive control, sexual assault as punishment, and extreme degradation, the aggregate sentence must reflect the grave objective seriousness of the offending and vindicate the dignity of each separate victim; a combination of lenient indicative sentences and insufficient notional accumulation will render an aggregate sentence manifestly inadequate.
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