A head sentence of two years for multiple entering premises, stealing and burglary offences by a mature recidivist offender with a drug problem is within the median range, where comparable sentences of three years have been imposed. Mental health issues falling short of insanity, where the sentencing court was already aware of the offender's troubled background and drug dependency, are unlikely to produce a different sentence given the need to balance culpability, deterrence and community safety.
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