Armed robbery involving a loaded firearm pointed at victims is not a 'conventional' armed robbery and warrants a sentence above the 6-9 year range established in Miles v R. When sentencing an offender who owes outstanding parole days, those days must be incorporated into the totality assessment, and the sentence must be structured to comply with s 8(1) of the Sentence Administration Act 1995 (WA), which requires non-parole terms to be served before parole terms. The characterisation of a target as 'vulnerable' is not invariably aggravating and must be assessed in context with other factors including the level of premeditation and threat.
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