AN; LM; WD [2022] NSWSC 1272
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AN; LM; WD [2022] NSWSC 1272
Project CitationSentence for specially aggravated kidnapping – reference to extracts from Bugmy Bar Book – childhood relevant to moral culpability and importance of rehabilitation
Coram: Walton J
- Evidence of WD’s deprived and disadvantaged childhood accepted by Crown – included parental neglect, disrupted schooling, exposure to domestic violence, exposure to parental substance abuse, early introduction to substance abuse and serious parental and family mental illness: [256]-[259]
- Court provided with summaries of research into impacts of childhood exposure to domestic and family violence; early exposure to alcohol and other drug use and interrupted school attendance derived from Bugmy Bar Book: [261]
- Referred to cases where deprived background found to reduce moral culpability, or at least to significantly mitigate sentence, for offences involving planning: [264]
- Offender’s childhood a crucial feature of his case and relevant to both assessment of moral culpability and need for rehabilitation: [265]-[267]
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