The case confirms the application of the [name withheld] v The Queen factors for choosing between strict security life imprisonment and life imprisonment for wilful murder under the pre-amendment WA sentencing regime. A premeditated domestic killing in breach of a restraining order involving 46 knife wounds on a defenceless victim in her own home, with no remorse, properly falls at the upper end of the scale of seriousness warranting strict security life imprisonment, notwithstanding good antecedents and the offence being in the nature of an aberration.
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