Where the circumstances of aggravation for an armed assault with intent to rob offence (bodily harm to victims) overlap substantially with separate grievous bodily harm counts arising from the same incident, the sentencing court must take very significant care to avoid double punishment, whether by reducing individual sentences or ordering concurrency. A 25% discount for early guilty plea under s 9AA of the Sentencing Act 1995 (WA) was applied on resentencing.
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