A total effective sentence of 16 years' imprisonment with a 12-year non-parole period is within range for a violent rape committed by driving a fist into the victim's vagina followed by a separate episode of stomping and kicking the victim's head, causing life-threatening injuries, where the offender pleaded guilty and had mitigating personal circumstances including depressive illness and alcohol abuse. Sentences of 56% and 50% of the respective maximum penalties for rape and intentionally causing serious injury were upheld as not manifestly excessive for the most serious examples of those offences.
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