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Date of sentence of 9 years’ imprisonment with default parole eligibility date; pleaded guilty to manslaughter (domestic violence offence); offender killed husband when she threw a knife at him in the course of an argument in the home (Dalton J). Sentencing remarks available on SCLQ Sentencing Remarks database (no citation).
Appeal Determined (QCA)
[2020] QCA 91
06 May 2020
Leave to appeal against sentence granted and appeal allowed; sentence manifestly excessive; paying due regard to lack of criminal history, immediate remorse, and early plea, offender should be eligible for parole after serving 3 years in custody: Sofronoff P and Mullins JA (Boddice J dissenting, granting leave to appeal but dismissing the appeal, holding that 9-year sentence without early parole eligibility ‘fell within a sound exercise of the sentencing discretion’).
Appeal Status
Appeal Determined (QCA)
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