A sentence of 30 months' imprisonment for a s 304(2) Criminal Code (WA) offence involving the deliberate use of a motor vehicle to run down a person, where injuries were not life-threatening but the potential consequences were very serious, falls within a sound exercise of the sentencing discretion, even where the offender pleaded guilty at the first opportunity, had no prior serious criminal record, and was affected by mental illness and substance abuse at the time of the offence.
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