Corey Cunningham will instead serve 15 years for attempted murder, the province’s highest court ruled, effectively doubling the sentence initially handed out last April.
The seven-year sentence given to a Toronto man who stabbed the mother of his unborn child in the neck, leaving her for dead, was “manifestly unfit,” the Ontario Court of Appeal has found in a ruling signalling to lower-court judges that rehabilitation must take a back seat to “denunciation and deterrence” in cases of domestic violence.
“Most significantly, he failed to give effect to the primary sentencing principles of denunciation and deterrence for attempted murder in a domestic context,” the appeal panel found, ruling in favour of a Crown appeal. That night, Cunningham dressed in a disguise in an attempt to evade security cameras and showed up unannounced at his ex’s apartment.
In a desperate bid to save her own life, the woman pretended to be dead by slumping to the floor and laying still. The appeal court noted that the sentencing judge had recognized the case’s many aggravating factors, including the “planned, deliberate, and cold-blooded” nature of the murder attempt.
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