Section 227(2) of the Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld) confers a discretion to reduce the pre-release period below 70% where special circumstances exist, but does not mandate any particular reduction. A sentencing judge may structure the sentence by imposing a lower head sentence coupled with a higher pre-release percentage, and the sentence must be assessed as a whole for manifest excessiveness. Cooperation with police, including admissions that reveal otherwise unknown offending, constitutes a special circumstance but does not compel a reduction to 50%.
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