The ACT Court of Appeal refused an extension of time to appeal against sentences for armed robbery and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, finding the sentence was not manifestly excessive. The Court endorsed the sentencing judge's characterisation of the armed robbery as being of the worst type — painstakingly planned, committed in company, involving a weapon used to inflict actual violence, and with a detailed getaway plan — and held that the offenders' youth, guilty pleas, and real prospects of rehabilitation were overwhelmed by the seriousness of the offence requiring immediate custodial sentences.
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