The District Court allowed a sentence appeal, holding that the Magistrates Court erred in sentencing the appellant to four months' wholly suspended imprisonment for serious assaults on a person over 60 by failing to give weight to the guilty plea and offer of compensation as evidence of remorse, dismissing relevant personal circumstances including unresolved trauma, and misapprehending the criminal history, and substituted a sentence of two years' probation with no convictions recorded.
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