The offender pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm, unnecessary injury to a dog, and two counts of assault against his former girlfriend over a period spanning April 2017 to August 2018.
The offences occurred in the context of a domestic relationship characterized by escalating violence, control, humiliation, and threats.
The offender failed to attend multiple sentencing dates and did not cooperate with the presentence report process.
The court imposed a custodial sentence of 16 months less presentence custody, apportioned consecutively across the four counts, along with an 18-month probation order with conditions including no contact with the victim, participation in domestic violence programming, and prohibition on animal ownership.
