The Court sentenced the offender to a total effective term of 6 years, 1 month and 23 days imprisonment for 47 offences (predominantly driving, theft, burglary and property damage), partially suspended after approximately 18 months in custody, with a good behaviour order including drug and alcohol rehabilitation conditions for the remainder. The Court held that the offender was ineligible for a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Order under s 12A of the Sentencing Act because the total sentence necessarily exceeded the 4-year statutory cap, and s 12A(5) prohibited imposing a lesser sentence solely to bring the offender within the DATO regime. The judgment also renewed calls for the ACT legislature to introduce aggregate sentencing provisions akin to s 53A of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW), noting the laborious complexity of individually sentencing and structuring concurrency across 47 offences.
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