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No jail for man whose partner fell to death off balcony

Scott Minigle will be sentenced for a domestic violence charge, not his then-partner's fatal fall. (Luke Costin/AAP PHOTOS)

A woman's fatal fall from a high-rise balcony can't feature in the sentence of the man who locked her on the hotel terrace, a senior judge has said.

Mother-of-two Jodie Lovell died after falling from a 10th-floor balcony at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Sydney's city centre.

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