Sentencing for unlawful confinement and aggravated assault arising from a planned group attack in which the victim was dragged from a vehicle, beaten, blocked from escape, and struck with a cordless nail gun.
The court treated as aggravating the offender's orchestration of the attack, the one-against-many nature of the violence, the victim's grave and lasting injuries, and the confinement that exposed the victim to further harm.
Mitigating factors included guilty pleas, remorse, trauma history, lack of criminal record, and strong rehabilitative prospects.
Applying the sentencing objectives in ss. 718 to 718.2 of the Criminal Code, the court held that a conditional sentence would be inconsistent with denunciation and deterrence and imposed a 52-month global penitentiary sentence, with 1.5:1 credit for pre-trial custody.
