A sentence of 3 years' immediate imprisonment for a single count of unlawfully doing grievous bodily harm under s 297(1) of the Criminal Code (WA), involving repeated forceful punching of a retreating victim causing orbital fractures requiring surgery, with a very late guilty plea and relevant prior record, is within the range of a sound exercise of the sentencing discretion.
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