When a sentencing judge adopts a concurrent sentencing approach with a higher head sentence to reflect overall criminality (rather than cumulative sentences), a discretionary serious violent offence declaration under s 161B(3)(b) of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld) may be justified where the unchallenged victim impact statements reveal threats of violence not contained in the agreed schedule of facts. Declarations should be reserved for the more serious convictions warranting them.
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