An Ipswich woman has had a win it the state's highest court which deemed her eight-year sentence for armed robberies with a blood-filled syringe to be manifestly excessive.
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It ruled that the initial sentence be overturned and be replaced with a six-year stint behind bars.
Maree Sharelle Leighton pleaded guilty in the Ipswich District Court in December last year to a host of charges including several armed robbery, assault, stealing and drug offences stemming from a six-day crime spree in 2012.
The court heard that on one occasion Leighton and a co-offender followed a woman into the lifts at a Brisbane carpark before producing a syringe and telling the terrified woman they had AIDS.
The two demanded the woman's money, credit cards and licence before telling her not to go to the police because they knew where she lived and they did not want to have to hurt her children.
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