A total effective sentence of 3 years 6 months with a non-parole period of 2 years 6 months was upheld as entirely appropriate for prolonged, humiliating and brutal domestic violence involving five assaults, intentionally causing injury, false imprisonment and threats, where the offender had a prior criminal history and guarded rehabilitation prospects. An inadvertent reference to a withdrawn charge in sentencing reasons will be treated as immaterial where the judge's analysis of seriousness does not rely on that matter.
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