Reliance on bare sentencing statistics without analysis of the facts of underlying cases remains unhelpful in manifest excess appeals, particularly where the sentence under challenge is an aggregate sentence for multiple offences. The sentencing principles concerning health conditions and reduced life expectancy as mitigating factors, as summarised in R v Obeid (No. 12), were applied and endorsed. An aggregate sentence of 11 years for eight sexual offences against a child family member, where the offender has a rare genetic disorder reducing life expectancy to 49 years, was held not manifestly excessive.
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