Does the sentence of a man convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl under the age of 16 years old have to be consecutive or concurrent?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from R. v. Townsend, 2015 BCCA 209 (CanLII):

The trial judge in the case at bar then turned to the question of whether the sentences should be consecutive or concurrent. She noted that the test enunciated by this court in R v. G.P.W. (1998) 106 B.C.A.C. 239, was “whether the acts constituting the offence were part of a linked series of acts within a single endeavour”. (Para. 35). She stated that although the assaults on the three victims all took place in the same location and within a short period of time, that did not automatically lead to the conclusion that they constituted a “single endeavour”.

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