A total effective sentence of 4 years' imprisonment for sustained domestic violence offending across three episodes (including aggravated assaults occasioning bodily harm on a pregnant partner, offending while on bail, and a planned attempt to pervert the course of justice) was held not to offend the totality principle. Ordinarily, a sentence for attempting to pervert the course of justice should be wholly cumulative with the sentence for the offence to which the attempt was directed.
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