Brendan Bananish pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, failure to comply with recognizance, and failure to comply with probation.
The Crown sought a Long-Term Offender (LTO) designation and an eight-year penitentiary sentence.
The defence opposed the LTO designation and sought a shorter sentence.
The court designated Bananish an LTO, imposed a global penitentiary sentence of seven years and three months (with 63 months credit for pre-sentence custody), and ordered an eight-year Long-Term Supervision Order, a lifetime weapons prohibition, and a DNA order.
The court considered Bananish's extensive criminal record, history of intimate partner violence, psychiatric diagnoses (antisocial personality disorder, schizophrenia, severe substance use disorder), and repeated breaches of court orders, while also acknowledging his Indigenous background and related systemic factors.