Where an offender commits planned and premeditated fraud offences of significant scale while subject to community-based orders that have already been breached, and community-based supervision has demonstrably failed, the point of last resort for immediate imprisonment is reached regardless of the offender's youth, heroin addiction, or prospects of rehabilitation. A sentencing judge's conclusion that imprisonment must be imposed carries the necessary inference that all lesser options have been considered and rejected, even without express reference to suspended sentences.
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