The Court of Appeal held that a sentencing judge's failure to expressly refer to the prospect of mandatory deportation in sentencing reasons does not alone establish error where the judge was aware of the issue and took the totality of the offender's mental health circumstances — including the impact of visa uncertainty — into account under Verdins limbs 4, 5 and 6. The Court confirmed that the stress caused by the prospect of deportation, where the only evidence of its impact was as to the stability of the offender's mental health, was subsumed within the Verdins moderation already applied. The individual sentences of 4 years for attempted aggravated carjacking and 2 years for intentionally causing injury, with 9 months cumulation, were held not to be manifestly excessive on the facts.
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