Where an offender committed offences as a child but was not identified until adulthood, the loss of opportunity to be sentenced in the Children's Court does not render a sentence manifestly excessive where the offending was extremely serious and the offender had a prior conviction for the same type of offence, making uplift from the Children's Court overwhelmingly likely. Significant rehabilitative progress on remand does not displace the dominant sentencing principles of community protection, deterrence and denunciation for savage, repeated violent offending.
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