R v Hunter [2021] NSWDC 375

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Hunter [2021] NSWDC 375 Hearing dates: 14 May 2021 Date of orders: 17 May 2021 Decision date: 17 May 2021 Jurisdiction: Criminal Before: Bennett SC DCJ Decision: Aggregate sentence of imprisonment of 7 years 6 months with a non-parole period of 4 years 3 months Catchwords: CRIME — Money laundering — Dealing with money suspected of being proceeds of crime Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1900 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1990 Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 Cases Cited: Attorney General's Application No.1 of 2002 [2002] NSWCCA 518 Imbornone v R [2017] NSWCCA 144 Porter v R [2008] NSWCCA 145 R v Borkowski [2009] NSWCCA 102 R v De Simoni [1981] HCA 31 R v Harrison [2001] NSWCCA 79 R v Qutami [2001] NSWCCA 353 Siganto v The Queen [1998] 149 CLR 656 Category: Sentence Parties: Regina (Crown) Terrence Geoffrey Hunter (Offender) Representation: Ms Sloan (Crown)

Mr Keller (Counsel for the Offender)

Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) (Crown) File Number(s): 2017/00339681

REVISED EX TEMPORE Judgement

Introduction 1. Terrence Hunter appears for sentence upon four charges arising from his relationship with Cheryl Rea, who is now known as Cheryl Graham, in the course of which he fraudulently arranged loans and dealt with proceeds that were generated by this activity, ultimately to the economic and emotional detriment of the victim. 2. The offending extended from late July 2004 to 31 December 2018 within four discrete periods particularised in the individual counts upon which sentence is to be determined and the offences included in the Forms 1. 3. The misconduct giving rise to the prosecution was acknowledged by the offender's counsel to have commenced with the first of the loans he fraudulently arranged, followed by the rollover of funds acquired by further fraudulent loans from which in each case some proceeds were used to discharge the preceding loan with the balance of the funds distributed to accounts to which the offender had access and used for his purposes whatever they might have been. 4. The essence of the submission made on behalf of the offender was that this was activity in which he engaged from his tendency to fulfill desire to assist others.