Criminal Code, section 272
Sexual assault with a weapon, threats to a third party or causing bodily harm
What the law says
- Maximum
- 14 years
- Mandatory minimum
- No mandatory minimum
- Kind of offence
- Sexual
Indictable only. Conditional MMPs: 4 years with a firearm (s.272(2)(a.1)); 5 years first offence (7 subsequent) with a restricted/prohibited firearm or criminal organization (s.272(2)(a)); life and 5 years if complainant under 16 (s.272(2)(a.2)). No base minimum.
6 cases with this offence
- February 19, 20265 years imprisonment on each of two counts, concurrent
- February 11, 2025Two years less a day in jail, then 36 months probation
- September 13, 20246 years in custody less 81 days' credit
- May 21, 20243 years and 8 months in custody, less 138 days credit
- June 17, 2022R. v. M.E.L., 2022 BCSC 1200
- Below the Crown's ask
Long-term offender: 7 years less 4 years pre-sentence credit (3 years remaining), then an 8-year long-term supervision order - September 15, 2021R. v. A.S.K., 2021 BCSC 1976
- Below the Crown's ask
Three and a half years (42 months) in jail, global, consecutive on four counts