A sentence of 3 years and 8 months' imprisonment for attempted armed robbery is within the proper exercise of sentencing discretion where the offence involved premeditation, targeting a vulnerable small business at night, use of a syringe to instil fear, and the offender had prior convictions for similar offending with an almost complete absence of mitigating factors beyond a late guilty plea.
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