The appropriate sentencing range for a spree of 11 armed robberies of small businesses by a recidivist offender with a drug addiction, who pleaded guilty and cooperated, is 8 to 12 years imprisonment. Where a sentence must be served cumulatively under s 156A of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld), the court should sentence towards the lower end of the range to avoid an unfairly crushing penalty.
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