The County Court imposed a total effective sentence of 7 years and 1 month (non-parole period of 5 years) for a sustained course of commercial burglaries and thefts totalling approximately $320,000, with a s 6AAA indication of 12 years (9-year NPP) absent the early guilty plea. The Court structured the sentence chronologically rather than anchoring to the most serious charge, to reflect escalating offending while on bail, and applied modest Verdins limb 5 mitigation for PTSD arising from institutional abuse in youth detention, while finding no causal nexus between the PTSD and the offending conduct itself. Rehabilitation prospects were assessed as guarded given the offender's age (51), extensive prior history of similar offending, and entrenched substance abuse patterns.
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