An effective sentence of eight years imprisonment with serious violent offence declarations is not manifestly excessive for attempted armed robbery with personal violence and unlawful grievous bodily harm involving a prolonged attack with a weapon on an older woman causing compound fractures and lasting injuries, committed by a mature recidivist offender with a lengthy criminal history, even where the offender pleaded guilty at an early stage and demonstrated genuine rehabilitative efforts.
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