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The court sentenced David Allen Geoghegan to eight years concurrent for kidnapping and manslaughter arising from a drug-debt kidnapping that ended in a fatal shooting.
The court stayed the unlawful confinement conviction (s.279(2)) under Kienapple; imposed a four year custodial sentence for kidnapping (s.279(1)) and a three year custodial sentence for being an accessory after the fact to murder (s.240), ordered the two sentences to run consecutively for an aggregate term of seven years, granted remand credit at 1.5 days per day (calculated as three years and five months), resulting in a remaining custodial term of three years and seven months, and ordered a prohibition on direct or indirect contact with Ronald Sock and Liam Thompson pursuant to s.743.21.
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On a joint submission, the court sentenced two accused for kidnapping, unlawful confinement and related violence, imposed probation and ancillary orders, and applied pre-trial custody credit.
The sentencing judge erred in finding the appellant had participated in planning the robbery and kidnapping; that unproven finding could not be relied on as an aggravating factor. The appeal is allowed in part, the original sentence is set aside and concurrent six-year sentences are imposed on each count, with credit for 142 days pre-sentence custody resulting in effective sentences of five years seven months and eight days.
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The appropriate sentence is determined by established sentencing principles and comparative case law and must be imposed concurrent to the existing life sentence; the Crown's proposed 12 years exceeded the comparable range for the offences pleaded and the Court imposed concurrent sentences resulting in a nine-year federal sentence on a go-forward basis with limited remand credit and ancillary orders.
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The court found Rajan Mann was the third kidnapper in a Richmond kidnapping-for-ransom case, relying on video, eyewitness, and communications evidence.
Sentencing reasons for Gurpreet Singh Hundal after a guilty plea to kidnapping, with an effective sentence of 6 years and 8 months, plus firearms and DNA orders.
The court found the accused guilty on two kidnapping counts, extortion, and possession of stolen property after concluding the circumstantial evidence proved knowing party liability.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal reduced Amandeep Singh Randhawa’s kidnapping sentence from 13 to 11 years, giving more weight to his timely guilty plea.
The Court of Appeal for British Columbia dismissed Brian Edward Abrosimo’s sentence appeal, upholding a 12-year kidnapping sentence and an 18-year global sentence.
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