A sentence of 8 years imprisonment without parole recommendation for dangerous driving causing two deaths, with a blood alcohol content of .163, speed of at least 138 km/h in a 70 km/h zone, and attempts to avoid detection, is within the sentencing range under s 328A(4) of the Criminal Code (Qld) (maximum 14 years). The fixing of parole eligibility or making of a parole recommendation may be an important way of recognising pleas of guilty and other mitigating circumstances, but a sentencing judge is entitled to leave parole to the parole authorities and account for mitigating factors in the head sentence instead.
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