Individual incest sentences of 6 years' imprisonment for offending involving digital and lingual penetration of a biological daughter aged 8-16 over nearly a decade, after conviction at trial with limited mitigation, are manifestly inadequate; however, a total effective sentence of 14 years 2 months for multiple sexual offences against two child victims may still be within the permissible range, and the residual discretion may be exercised where matters arising since sentence would limit any uplift on resentence.
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