<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A cruel domestic violence killer who boasted of his crimes to another inmate will spend decades behind bars for strangling his new partner and desecrating her body.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Paul Jason Sultana, 35, was in an unsettled relationship with 28-year-old Dayna Isaac before tying two electrical cords around her throat and murdering her in January 2023.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The offender ignored the deceased's pleas to stop and persisted in his cruel attack on her, which made her last moments full of pain and fear," NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Garling said when sentencing Sultana on Friday.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 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data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/paul-jason-sultana-court-updates-man-to-spend-decades-behind-bars-after-cruel-attack-on-new-partner-dayna-isaac/593ec0cc-961f-475c-af39-ff901dc8dddb" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Isaac's murder followed a brief relationship in which Sultana could not accept that she did not want something more long-term.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He took red rope and tape and cycled to her Penrith home in western Sydney, waiting for her to return on the day of the murder.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-investigations-continue-into-terrorist-father-and-son-phillipines-trip/44fb98ca-1bb0-484d-b790-5b895d7a633a" target="_blank"><strong><span>Inside the Akrams' $22 a night Philippine hotel</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Once she let him inside, he shoved her into a wall before dragging her to the bedroom area and then strangled her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police later found the woman's body, with her trousers and underwear pulled down.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Forensic testing later revealed Sultana's DNA on Isaac's groin area.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Arrested and placed on remand the day after the murder, Sultana later boasted about his crimes to another inmate.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-five-key-questions-answered/ea43e596-5ede-44ac-be31-65423acdb565" target="_blank"><strong><span>The five questions Australia is asking after the Bondi terror attack</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The premeditation, persistent assaults and the degradation of Isaac's body after the murder were all aggravating factors which increased the prison sentence, Justice Garling said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sultana had been convicted over a number of violent offences since 2016 and spent significant stints in prison since that time, the judge noted.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While the 35-year-old had been diagnosed with schizophrenia after his arrest, the court was shown no evidence this contributed to the murder.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Justice Garling called intimate domestic partner violence a scourge in a civilised society.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sultana's conduct had to be denounced completely, he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There is simply no place at all in our community for conduct of this kind. It must be marked with significant disapprobation."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>At trial, the 35-year-old denied murdering his partner, saying that he was asleep on the couch and that an unknown third party must have been involved.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Justice Garling rejected this when finding him guilty.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After the murder, Sultana took Isaac's RAV4 to a remote area of bushland, setting it on fire and destroying it.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sultana will be eligible for parole in January 2056.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>Support is available by calling 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732, Lifeline on 13 11 14 or the Men's Referral Service on 1300 766 491.</span></strong></em></div></div>