The Queensland Court of Appeal refused leave to appeal against a sentence of two years' imprisonment suspended after eight months for two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and one count of wilful damage arising from domestic violence. The Court held that while a two-year head sentence was heavy for assaults of this type, it was within range given the applicant's extensive criminal history including prior domestic violence offences, the repeated nature of the offending against the same complainant, and the commission of the third offence while on bail for the earlier offences.
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