A sentence of 9 months' imprisonment (after 25% guilty plea discount) for a single breach of a violence restraining order involving sustained threats to kill over multiple communications is within the available sentencing range. The totality principle does not require partial rather than full accumulation of sentences for threatening to kill and breach of VRO where the sentencing judge has accommodated the overlap in the length of individual sentences. An offender bears the onus of establishing remorse on the balance of probabilities, and a sentencing judge is entitled to reject claims of remorse having regard to the offender's conduct as a whole.
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