Illustrates the court's willingness to impose time-served sentences for repeated supervision order and bail breaches where the offender's complex trauma history, chronic physical disabilities (incontinence, immobility), and mental ill-health (PTSD, major depressive disorder) substantially reduce moral culpability and make imprisonment particularly burdensome. Practitioners acting for clients with similar profiles should obtain detailed psychological evidence addressing Verdins categories 5 and 6 and the McKee & Brooks framework linking drug use to trauma.
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