Injuries suffered by an offender in the course of or as a result of offending are a mitigating factor to which significant weight may be given, even where the injuries were the realisation of an obvious risk of the criminal conduct. The significance of such injuries depends on all the circumstances, including their seriousness and permanence, the nature of the offending, the relationship between the injuries and the offence, and the foreseeability of the risk. There is no broad principle that foreseeability of injury limits mitigatory weight.
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