00:00There are the aggravating factors of the complainant's vulnerability and the domestic context.
00:06Taken together, that would lead me to impose a sentence of three years' custody.
00:13With that total of six years in mind, I reduce the sentence to allow for the mitigation I've already identified
00:20and to make some allowance for totality.
00:24Those sentences for perverting need to attract distinct and consecutive sentences
00:29to deter those facing prosecution from thinking they may as well try to derail the process
00:35as it won't make much difference.
00:38The total and effective sentence I pass, therefore, is four years' imprisonment
00:44made up of two years for each offence, the two terms being consecutive to one another.
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