The appropriate sentencing range for torture involving escalating violence over several weeks, serious injuries including life-threatening stab wounds, breach of parental trust, and attempts to pervert the course of justice is 7 to 10 years with a serious violent offender declaration. When a serious violent offender declaration is made under the discretion in s 161B(3), the sentencing judge may impose a head sentence towards the lower end of the range, and a guilty plea discount should reduce the head sentence rather than result in an earlier parole recommendation.
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