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Sentencing for robbery and unlawful confinement arising from an elevator attack. The court imposed a five-year-and-six-month global sentence, with concurrent terms and credit for time served.
The court accepted a joint submission and sentenced Mr. Zhang for manslaughter, unlawful confinement, extortion, and related confinement offences.
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 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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