A non-parole period of 18 years for a murder involving multiple stab wounds of an unarmed domestic partner, committed while intoxicated, by an offender with a history of domestic violence and assessed as high risk of violent reoffending against intimate partners, is within the range of sentences customarily imposed for comparable offences. Heavy intoxication at the time of a domestic violence murder is not a mitigating factor.
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