The Crown sought dangerous offender designation arising from repeated intimate partner assaults, including two sexual assaults with weapons, committed over a short period while the offender was bound by multiple probation orders.
Relying on psychiatric evidence and the offender’s extensive record of violent, sexual, and breach-related offending, the court found the statutory criteria under s. 753 were proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
Applying the governing dangerous offender framework, the court concluded that a conventional sentence alone would not adequately protect the public, but that a determinate penitentiary sentence followed by a 10-year long-term supervision order would do so.
The offender was designated a dangerous offender and sentenced to a total of eight and one half years’ imprisonment, less four years’ pre-trial custody credit, with ancillary orders.
