The Queensland Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal against a sentence of 6 years imprisonment with a serious violent offence declaration for grievous bodily harm arising from a premeditated 'gangland' style attack involving a throat cutting and severing of two fingers. The Court found no actionable disparity between the applicant's sentence (6 years with declaration) and the co-offender's sentence (5 years without declaration), and upheld the imposition of the serious violent offence declaration in the circumstances.
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