For the offence of intentionally causing serious injury, where the offending involves wanton and unprovoked violence and the offender has a significant history of violent offending, rehabilitation and youth must be subjugated to general deterrence, specific deterrence and denunciation, even where the offender is a youthful offender showing signs of rehabilitation. A sentence of 20 months for a grave instance of this offence (one-twelfth of the 20-year maximum) was manifestly inadequate; five years with a three-year non-parole period was substituted, with the Court noting that but for double jeopardy the sentence would have been considerably heavier.
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