R v Traynor (a pseudonym) [2023] NSWDC 612

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Traynor (a pseudonym) [2023] NSWDC 612 Hearing dates: 1 December 2023 Date of orders: 1 December 2023 Decision date: 01 December 2023 Jurisdiction: Criminal Before: Haesler SC DCJ Decision: Aggregate imprisonment sentence of 3 years and 10 months with a non-parole period of 1 year and 11 months Catchwords: CRIME — Drug offences — Supply prohibited drug — Commercial quantity — Indictable quantity — Cocaine SENTENCING — Mitigating factors — Plea of guilty — Remorse SENTENCING — Penalties — Imprisonment —Intensive Correction Order not appropriate SENTENCING — Relevant factors on sentence —Form 1 — Role of offender — Objective seriousness SENTENCING — Sentencing procedure — Instinctive synthesis SENTENCING — Subjective considerations on sentence — Drug addiction — Mental illness — Impact of multiple traumas — Family hardship —Mercy — Special circumstances Legislation Cited: Court Suppression and Non-Publications Orders Act 2010 (NSW) Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (NSW) Cases Cited: Attorney General's Application under s 37 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 No 1 of 2002 [2002] NSWCCA 518; (2002) 56 NSWLR 146 Devaney v R [2012] NSWCCA 285 Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v De La Rosa (2010) 79 NSWLR 1; [2010] NSWCCA 194 Donald (a pseudonym) v R [2021] NSWCCA 198 Hamzy v R (1994) 74 A Crim R 341 Henry v R [1999] NSWCCA 111; (1999) 46 NSWLR 346; (1999) 106 A Crim R 149 Jadron v R [2015] NSWCCA 217 Lloyd v R [2022] NSWCCA 18 Luque v R [2017] NSWCCA 226 Pym v R [2014] NSWCCA 182 R v Edwards (1996) 90 A Crim R 510 R v Kelly [1999] UKHL 4; [2000] 1 QB 198 R v R E [2023] NSWCCA 184 R v Way (2004) 60 NSWLR 168; [2004] NSWCCA 131 R v Wirth (1976) 14 SASR 291 Stanley v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) [2023] HCA 3 Tootell v R [2012] QCA 273 Category: Sentence Parties: Frank Traynor (a pseudonym) (offender) Public Prosecutions (NSW) (Crown) Representation: Counsel: S Howell (for the offender)