Amar Mahil

The offender, a 35-year-old first-time offender and single mother, was convicted of possessing a loaded prohibited firearm and other firearm-related offences after police found two handguns hidden in her home.

The Crown sought a four-year custodial sentence, while the defence sought a conditional sentence.

The court considered the offender's strong rehabilitative prospects, lack of criminal record, and the severe collateral consequences incarceration would have on her children and elderly mother.

The court imposed a conditional sentence of two years less 18 days to be served in the community, followed by three years of probation.

The offender, a firearms recidivist with a significant criminal record, was convicted of possessing a loaded prohibited firearm and other firearm-related offences, as well as multiple breaches of release and prohibition orders.

The firearms were found hidden in a residence occupied by nine people, including five children.

The offender engaged in a standoff with police before being arrested.

The court sentenced the offender to a total of 8.5 years imprisonment, consisting of 7 years for the index firearm offence and 1.5 years consecutive for the breach offences, less credit for pre-sentence custody.