R v Snedden [2021] NSWDC 630

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Snedden [2021] NSWDC 630 Hearing dates: 1 April 2021 Date of orders: 20 April 2021 and 18 June 2021 Decision date: 20 April 2021 Jurisdiction: Criminal Before: Buscombe DCJ Decision: Impose an aggregate sentence of 3 years imprisonment, to be served by way of Intensive Correction Order Catchwords: CRIME — Drug offences — Ongoing supply SENTENCING — Penalties — Intensive Correction Order Legislation Cited: Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (NSW), s 25, Schedule 1 Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) s 193(2) Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) ss 3A, 5, 21A Category: Sentence Parties: Lee Andrew Snedden (Offender) Director of Public Prosecutions (Crown) Representation: Counsel: Ms Mayne (Offender) Ms McKenzie (Crown) File Number(s): 2020/0086222 Publication restriction: Nil

SENTENCE

Introduction 1. The offender stands to be sentenced having pleaded guilty to two offences under s 25A of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985, being the ongoing supply of heroin and methadone, the first offence having occurred between 6 February 2020 and 8 March 2020, and the second offence having occurred between 7 March 2020 and 7 April 2020. Each offence carries a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and there is no applicable standard non‑parole period. 2. There are Form 1 offences the offender acknowledges his guilt in relation to and asks that I take into account four offences on two Form 1s. Three offences are on the Form 1 relating to the first offence of ongoing supply, being charge sequence 1. The first of those three offences are dealing with property reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime, being $170 cash, being an offence under s 193(2) of the Crimes Act. The second offence is the supply of a small quantity of a prohibited drug, being in this instance 840 millilitres of methadone, under s 25(1) of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act. The third offence is the supply of a small quantity of prohibited drug, being in this instance 2.2 grams of heroin. 3. The fourth offence is on the second Form 1 and relates to the second offence of ongoing supply being charge sequence 2; that offence is the supply of a small quantity of a prohibited drug, being in this instance 0.6 grams of heroin.