A sentence of two years and three months imprisonment with parole at the midpoint is within range for a single-punch grievous bodily harm offence causing serious facial fractures and ongoing psychological harm, where the offender has a prior history of violent offending on three occasions and shows no remorse, even where the offender acted in what he believed was defence of another person but used grossly excessive force. The mean or common level of sentence for GBH cases involving single reprehensible incidents of violence remains in the vicinity of two and a half years.
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