| Case | Offences | Plea | Sentence | Appeal | Record | Facts |
White
(23)
NSW CCA
29.5.1998 | 9 x s.94
Sched:
2 x stealing
2 x poss cannabis | PG | MT 5y
AT 2y | AD | poor record - offences committed two months after being released to parole | Bag snatching from mostly elderly women - some victims injured.
Ellis discount - protection - some evidence of drug rehabilitation |
Ali
(21)
NSW CCA
9.11.1998 | s.94 | PG | MT 2y
AT 2y | AD | fraud, property offence, violence offence - escapee | Snatched bag containing cash and cheques (employer takings) from young female. Caught by bystanders. |
Rohrick
(32)
NSW CCA [58]
10.3.1999 | s.94 | PG | MT 3y
AT 2y | AA
MT 2y 6m
AT 2y 6m | record included robbery | Attempted to take bag from female with four young children having observed her withdrawing money from ATM - aggravated by element of violence and premeditation and involvement of children |
Taylor
(18)
NSW CCA [442]
23.10.2000 | s.94 | PG | Fixed 2y suspended | Crown AD | nil | Pushed 43y female down stairs at railway station and grabbed her handbag while she was trying to get up. Caught by bystanders.
Heroin addict. |
Randall
NSW CCA [239]
12.6.2002 | s.94 | PG | 3y 6m
NPP 21m | AA
2y 6m
NPP 17m | hemp, alcohol. Lack of detail given. | Stole handbag from elderly lady while she loaded shopping into car - SJ erred in taking into account that A had pushed V.
Aboriginal with intellectual impairment. |
Young
(23)
NSW CCA [276]
1.10.2003 | s.94 | PG | 4y
NPP 18m | AA
3y
NPP 18m | AR, violence | Stole mobile phone from young male victim camping with friends – Threatened with tree branch – Intoxicated.
Distinction between Steal from person and Robbery – Remorse – Plea of guilty. |
Wilson
(22)
Murphy
(female)
(33)
NSW CCA [94]
6.4.2004 | s.94
Sched:
3 x GIC
s.94
Sched:
Receiving | PG
PG | 3y 6m
NPP 2y
3y 6m
NPP 1y | AD
AD | Appalling
Appalling | Bag taken from complainant sitting at food stall – No violence
Deprived backgrounds, Drug addiction – Some prospects of rehabilitation
SM has marked mental and psychological disadvantages – Sentence cumulated to existing sentence |
Kumar
NSW CCA [352]
18.12.2007 | s.94 | PG | 3y
NPP 2y | AD | Theft | With cooffender stole mobile phone from male victim – apprehended one month later when recognised by victim.
Drug addiction. |
Edwards
(32)
NSW CCA [199]
12.8.2009 | s.94 | PG | 2y
NPP 15m
Suspended | AD | Priors for dishonesty and stealing from person | Female – grabbed money from male who had just withdrawn it from ATM – squeezed hand of victim
Seven children and pregnant at time of sentence – suffering developmental disability
Suspension revoked after commission of additional offences - appeal against both original sentence and revocation dismissed |
