A vigilante purpose — detaining a person to enforce a perceived claim of right — is not a mitigating factor in sentencing for offences under s 86 Crimes Act 1900 (NSW); rather, it calls for denunciation and general deterrence. An offender in a joint criminal enterprise is not to be sentenced for acts of co-offenders beyond the offender's presence and contemplation in the preconcert.
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