The offender was convicted on guilty pleas and sentenced to an aggregate term of 3 years 2 months' imprisonment with a non-parole period of 1 year 9 months for robbery, reckless wounding, and possessing an unauthorised firearm, with a 25% utilitarian discount applied. The court applied the five De La Rosa principles regarding mental illness in sentencing, finding the offender's chronic schizophrenia materially contributed to the offending, significantly reducing moral culpability and the weight given to general and specific deterrence. Special circumstances were found on the basis of the offender's mental health, first period of full-time custody, and need for post-release monitoring, justifying a generous adjustment between head sentence and non-parole period. The sentence was backdated to the date of arrest notwithstanding intervening periods of bail refusal on unrelated charges that were ultimately withdrawn or did not result in custodial penalties.
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