The increment to a sentence when taking into account a large number of Form 1 offences must remain constrained by the focus on the primary offence; the large number of Form 1 offences does not call for a commensurate arithmetic increase in penalty. For a 23-year-old offender with low-average intellectual functioning and a troubled background, rehabilitation with maturity rather than crushing of hope remains important even where the offender has a significant criminal history.
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