Sentencing — aggravated robbery — male assaults female — breach of protection order — theft of a motor vehicle — R v Mako [2000] 2 NZLR 170. The defendant appeared for sentence having pleaded guilty to a crime spree that included aggravated robbery, male assaults female, theft, theft of a motor vehicle, robbery and breach of a protection order. The Judge identified the lead charge as the aggravated robbery of a TAB. The defendant entered the premises with a steak knife and jumped the counter. The staff and public resisted the defendant and he left without inflicting major injury. The defendant would go on to commit a number of further crimes, including stealing a woman's handbag, breaching a protection order and assaulting a woman, stealing a vehicle and petrol and failing to pay a taxi fare. The Judge fixed a starting point on the lead charge of aggravated robbery at five and a half years, per the tariff case R v Mako. The Judge looked at the starting points for the other offending and, on a totality view, increased the starting point to six and half years. A further uplift of six months was imposed for the defendant's previous convictions. The Judge then granted a 25 percent discount for his guilty plea, bringing the end sentence to five years and three months' imprisonment, and 12 months' disqualification for dangerous driving. Judgment Date: 20 April 2018.