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1. This Appellant was charged on one charge of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place and two of robbery. He was arrested when, upon a search in the street, he was found to be carrying a four-inch knife. The learned judge thought that the minimum mandatory sentence was appropriate for that offence, that is to say a sentence of six months' imprisonment, and we see no reason to disagree. The robberies were committed by the Appellant on his own and not in a gang. That said, the circums