Where a sentencing judge finds that the protection of the community does not loom large and the offender poses a low risk of reoffending, the sentencing remarks must demonstrate how that finding was reconciled with a decision to impose full-time custody rather than an ICO, failing which the sentence will be set aside for failure to treat community safety as the paramount consideration under s 66(1).
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