A course of conduct charge of incest involving more than 6 years of offending, at least 150 acts of sexual penetration, two pregnancies, gross breach of trust, and persistent violence and controlling behaviour warrants a sentence in the order of 15 years' imprisonment. The residual discretion to dismiss a Crown appeal will not be exercised merely because the prosecutor failed to provide comparable cases, where no incorrect or misleading information was given and the public interest in setting appropriate sentencing standards is engaged. Prosecutors are expected to provide sentencing judges with comparable cases when course of conduct charges are involved, given the particular difficulty of the sentencing task.
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