Post-mortem acts such as sexual intercourse with a corpse, mutilation, incineration, or dumping of the body may be treated as aggravating circumstances of a homicide for sentencing purposes, and are not confined in their relevance to the question of remorse. The 'circumstances of the offence' for sentencing purposes are not limited to acts strictly contemporaneous with the commission of the crime; what should be regarded as a surrounding circumstance is a question of degree to be determined by the good sense of the sentencing judge. R v Wei Yin Chan (1994) 76 A Crim R 252 should not be followed on this point.
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