Overview
- Justice Peter Garling set a 44-year term with a 33-year non-parole period, making Sultana eligible for parole in January 2056.
- The court found Sultana lay in wait with rope and tape, assaulted Isaac in her Penrith unit and strangled her with two cords.
- Forensic testing placed Sultana at the scene, a neighbour reported terrifying screams, and a fellow inmate said Sultana made admissions in custody.
- After the killing he fled without calling for help, burned Isaac’s RAV4 in Castlereagh bushland, destroyed clothing, cut his hair and was reported to police by his mother.
- The judge rejected Sultana’s claim that an unknown intruder was responsible, denounced intimate-partner violence, noted prior violent offending and declined the Crown’s push for life without parole.