The Court sentenced the offender to three years, eight months and 24 days' imprisonment (after a 20% discount for a guilty plea following a criminal case conference) for aggravated intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm in a family violence context, where the offender stabbed his brother-in-law four to five times during an alcohol-fuelled argument. The Court rejected an intensive correction order as inadequate given the objective seriousness of the offending, finding that only full-time custody could achieve the purposes of sentencing. A shorter than usual non-parole period of one year, seven months and 15 days was set, having regard to the offender's lack of criminal history, low reoffending risk, prosocial background, and the devastating impact on his own family.
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