The case confirms that where psychiatric evidence establishes an underlying predisposition to mental illness and a recommendation for psychiatric hospitalisation upon release, this is sufficient to establish continuing danger to the community as a countervailing factor to the mitigating effect of mental illness in sentencing, even absent an express finding by the sentencing judge on that point. The four considerations identified in Hemsley regarding mental illness in sentencing (reduced moral culpability, inappropriateness as vehicle for general deterrence, heavier burden of custody, and countervailing community danger) were applied.
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