The County Court sentenced the offender to 3 years' imprisonment with a 21-month non-parole period for six burglaries and ten thefts totalling approximately $300,000, committed over an 18-day period while the offender was on a Drug Court order. The Court moderated general and specific deterrence under Verdins limbs 2–6 and Bugmy, accepting that severe methamphetamine dependence, PTSD, persistent depressive disorder, cognitive impairments, and childhood deprivation reduced moral culpability and rendered imprisonment more onerous. The Court treated 46 days in residential rehabilitation (Odyssey House) as relevant to the instinctive synthesis following Akoka principles, and credited the East Side Recovery program engagement as a significant intrusion on autonomy, though not formally Akoka time, while assessing rehabilitation prospects as guarded but open notwithstanding reoffending during the deferral period.
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