Where charges to which an offender pleads guilty are the result of plea negotiations reducing more serious strictly indictable charges, the theoretical availability of summary disposition for the reduced charges is not a significant sentencing factor warranting a discount, particularly where the offender's criminal record and breach of bond rendered Local Court disposition inappropriate. The mitigating factor under s 21A(3)(i) of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (reparation) requires reparation to have been actually made at the time of sentence.
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