Sentencing statistics and comparative cases are of limited utility for offences under s 86 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) because such offences are unlikely to be sufficiently homogenous. Contract enforcers — persons engaged as 'muscle' to enforce civil debts through intimidation — should be viewed with considerable disapproval by the courts, reflected in the sentence imposed. Where an indicative sentence is not manifestly excessive and the notional accumulation is modest, the aggregate sentence is unlikely to be manifestly excessive.
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