Whether a psychiatric condition reduces or eliminates general deterrence as a sentencing purpose depends on the nature and severity of its symptoms and its effect on the mental capacity of the offender. Where the offender cannot demonstrate the illness was active at the time of offending, the sentencing judge is not in error in declining to reduce the weight given to general deterrence. Fresh evidence on appeal that does not address the state of the offender's illness at the time of the offences will not be received.
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