An offender's age in mid to older years is not as important a sentencing consideration as youth, where special considerations are well established. Sentencing statistics, particularly averages, have very significant limitations and do not illuminate the facts on which sentences were imposed. Statements pursuant to s 6AAA of the Sentencing Act 1991 will rarely assist on appeal as they are based on hypotheses too uncertain to enable meaningful conclusions about the sentence itself.
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