A Sydney man convicted of throwing his fiancee to her death from a 15th-floor balcony is set to find out his punishment for the crime.
Simon Gittany will be sentenced in the Supreme Court on Tuesday for the murder of Lisa Cecilia Harnum in July 2011.
Gittany, 40, who pleaded not guilty, was found to have thrown the 30-year-old off their inner-city balcony in a fit of "apoplectic" rage after she made plans to leave him and return to her native Canada.
Gittany's case has attracted widespread media attention, as have the actions of his current girlfriend, Rachelle Louise.
Last week, flocked by vocal supporters, she fronted the NSW Supreme Court with signs proclaiming Gittany's innocence.
At his sentence hearing on Thursday, Justice Lucy McCallum said the "defiant denial of guilt" of Ms Harnum's murder only hampered Gittany's future prospects.
"The whole family is actively engaged in a protest," she told the Supreme Court.
"It goes towards maintaining the rage and maintaining the denial which is generally seen as an impediment to rehabilitation."
Justice McCallum will deliver the sentence on Tuesday.
The prosecution urged Justice McCallum to be guided by the standard non-parole period for murder, which is 20 years.
But Gittany's defence say the non-parole period should be significantly less.
