A man who terrorized and assaulted his wife over her infidelity, including an attack with a baseball bat while she and her new partner were sleeping, has lost his sentence appeal.
Bruce William MacDonald pleaded guilty to 12 offences against his estranged wife, Farah Dubash and Karl Zeeso, her new partner. The crimes began in September 2010, when MacDonald suspected his wife was having an affair and uttered several death threats against her and Zeeso.
MacDonald, 57 at the time of the offences, received a sentence of 5 ½ years in prison.
On appeal, he argued that the judge erred in that his sentence was not similar to other sentences imposed on similar offenders and that it was disproportionate and demonstrably unfit.
But a three-member panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal has dismissed his appeal.
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