A jury's verdict of guilty for sexual offences against an unconscious complainant is not unreasonable merely because the complainant had memory failures regarding prior consensual sexual activities, where the complainant was resolute on the key issues of consent and the video evidence was consistent with unconsciousness. A sentence of four years' imprisonment for rape of an unconscious former partner, aggravated by recording and leaving the recordings for the complainant to find, is within range where the offender has no mitigating factors of youth, remorse, or rehabilitation prospects and has a substantial domestic violence history.
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