The fact that an offender is a single parent with custody of children, and that incarceration will create difficulties for others in caring for those children, cannot in itself warrant the court in refraining from imposing a term of imprisonment which would otherwise be appropriate. A deprived personal history carries somewhat less mitigating weight for a mature offender than for a young person. For dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm with a blood alcohol concentration of approximately 0.28%, a sentence of three years imprisonment (with parole eligibility after 12 months) was appropriate where the case was neither a particularly grave nor particularly minor example of the offence type.
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