For offences involving going armed in public with a knife and threatening a stranger, combined with deprivation of liberty, common assault and wilful exposure, the appropriate starting point for sentence is approximately 15 months imprisonment, consistent with R v Hayes [2008] QCA 236. A serious medical condition (heart attack) that makes incarceration more burdensome is a relevant mitigating factor warranting reduction of the head sentence.
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