Premier Daniel Andrews has called on judges to heed community fears about crime when sentencing violent criminals. Mr Andrews made his comments after The Age revealed on Saturday that no judges had applied minimum sentences in Victoria, except on appeal, for a variety of violent crimes. Statutory minimum sentences, more commonly known as mandatory sentences, have been in place for certain violent crimes since 2013. However, the laws have provisions that allow judges to take "special reasons" into account to bypass mandatory sentences that apply for some crimes.