The sentencing of a man who choked his partner and threatened to kill her has been labelled as "stern" but an appeal against it has been dismissed.
Benjamin Paul Day was found guilty of two counts of choking, and one charge each of threatening to kill and contravening a family violence order by an ACT Supreme Court jury in September.
In December, Justice Geoffrey Kennett sentenced Day, aged in his late 40s, to four-and-a-half years' jail time with a non-parole period of two years and 10 months.
