Sentencing for second degree murder arising from the killing of the offender's mother while the offender was suffering from schizophrenia.
The court treated the parent-child relationship and the resulting breach of trust as aggravating, but found the offender's severe mental illness significantly diminished moral blameworthiness and elevated rehabilitation and treatment as major sentencing considerations.
Rejecting the Crown's submission that planning and deliberation should aggravate sentence, the court fixed parole ineligibility near the low end of the range.
A life sentence was imposed with 11 years' parole ineligibility, together with DNA, lifetime weapons prohibition, and communication prohibition orders.
