The County Court sentenced the offender to a total effective sentence of 3 years and 6 months' imprisonment with a non-parole period of 2 years and 4 months for a prolonged course of intimate-partner violence comprising aggravated burglary, intentionally causing injury, conduct endangering serious injury (rolled-up strangulation count), threat to kill, common assault, property damage, and drug possession. The Court characterised the offending as objectively serious family violence warranting strong denunciation and deterrence, but moderated the sentence to reflect the accepted sentence indication, the utilitarian value of the guilty plea (though not early), the offender's relative youth, productive use of time on remand, and reasonable rehabilitation prospects contingent on engagement with treatment. The s 6AAA indication was 6 years' imprisonment with a 4-year non-parole period.
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