For multiple unprovoked assaults occasioning bodily harm by a mature offender on innocent victims over a protracted period, the usual expectation is an actual custodial term, though a fully suspended term may be appropriate where the level of physical harm is not great, particularly for young offenders. An undue concession by a Crown prosecutor during sentencing is not necessarily fatal to an Attorney-General's appeal but is a significant factor militating against success, and the Court should be circumspect about imposing a sentence inconsistent with the Crown's concession below.
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