Overview

• The Court of Criminal Appeal unanimously dismissed the Crown’s claim that the punishment was manifestly inadequate.
• Chief Justice Andrew Bell, Justice Belinda Rigg and Justice Sarah Huggett said the term aligned with recent sentences in similar domestic-partner homicide cases.
• The original sentence remains a maximum of 22.5 years with a 15.5-year non-parole period, reduced by about 10% for a guilty plea.
• The judges said any marginal difference in sentence length could be explained by diminished moral culpability identified by the sentencing judge.
• Thompson was on parole and subject to an apprehended violence order he breached before the 2022 murder, and he will be eligible for parole in March 2038.