DATE: 20061222

DOCKET: C45400

COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO

RE: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Respondent) – and – TREVOR ROY LETLOW (Appellant)

BEFORE: ROSENBERG, MOLDAVER and GOUDGE JJ.A.

COUNSEL: Paul Calarco for the appellant Elise Nakelsky for the respondent

HEARD & ENDORSED: December 21, 2006

On appeal from sentence imposed by Justice Frank N. Marrocco of the Superior Court of Justice dated February 21, 2006.

A P P E A L B O O K E N D O R S E M E N T

[1] This was a very serious offence. The appellant inflicted a severe beating on the victim. The offence itself required a lengthy penitentiary sentence. Given the appellant’s serious criminal record including prior convictions for similar offences of violence, protection of the public required a lengthy sentence. The trial judge made no error in principle and the sentence was not unfit. Untreated, the appellant remains a serious danger to the public and to date there is little to suggest that the appellant is capable of rehabilitation.

[2] Accordingly, while leave to appeal sentence is granted, the appeal is dismissed.