A combination of youth, intellectual disability and childhood deprivation does not constitute 'exceptional and rare' circumstances under s 5(2H)(e) of the Sentencing Act 1991 for category 2 offences of home invasion and armed robbery where such offending is commonly perpetrated by young offenders of low intelligence from deprived backgrounds. For s 5(2H)(c)(ii), the assessment of whether imprisonment imposes a substantially and materially greater burden is objective, not dependent on the offender's subjective experience.
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