Intoxication that merely reduces inhibitions, as distinct from a state of psychosis, does not reduce moral culpability for the purposes of sentencing for violent offences. R v [name withheld] is confined to cases involving psychosis. Offences of driving while intoxicated and violent offending arising from the same broad incident may be treated as discrete pieces of criminality warranting cumulation.
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