The Supreme Court sentenced the offender to 10 years' imprisonment with a 7-year non-parole period for manslaughter by unlawful and dangerous act, where the offender killed a 67-year-old female victim in her home and disposed of her body in a green waste bin. The Court assessed the offending as upper mid-range manslaughter, applied Verdins principle 5 (imprisonment more burdensome due to mental impairment), and indicated a pre-plea sentence of 12 years with a 9-year minimum, reflecting a significant utilitarian discount for the guilty plea which avoided a murder trial. The Court gave only modest weight to the offender's protection prisoner status due to insufficient evidence about the specific conditions of that regime, consistent with R v Males.
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