R v Matthew Mark RENEHAN [2008] NSWDC 95

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: R v Matthew Mark RENEHAN [2008] NSWDC 95

HEARING DATE(S): 17 March 2008

JUDGMENT DATE: 17 March 2008

JURISDICTION: Criminal

JUDGMENT OF: Berman SC DCJ

DECISION: See paragraphs [21] & [22]

CATCHWORDS: CRIMINAL LAW - Sentence - Ongoing supply of drugs

PARTIES: The Crown Matthew Mark Renehan

FILE NUMBER(S): DC 2007/11/0981

COUNSEL: L. Nicholls - Offender

SOLICITORS: NSW DPP Shad Partners - Offender

SENTENCE

1 HIS HONOUR: Matthew Mark Renehan appears for sentence today having pleaded guilty on an earlier occasion to two offences involving the supply of drugs. The first is supplying methylamphetamine on an ongoing basis and the second is the offence of supplying a drug. These offences relate to the activities of Mr Renehan in June and July 2007.

2 The matter came to the attention of police when an undercover officer contacted Mr Renehan on his mobile telephone. This was on 27 June 2007. the undercover officer discussed the purchase of what is called an eight ball of amphetamine and so it was that on 28 June 2007 the undercover officer went to a hotel in Gladesville where he met the offender and a man by the name of Benjamin McDonald. There a transaction took place whereby the offender supplied the undercover officer with a clear plastic satchel containing a yellow coloured paste substance which proved upon analysis to be methylamphetamine with a total weight of 3.3 grams and a purity of 13½ per cent. The undercover officer paid $400 for this drug. A short time later, in mid-July 2007, there were further negotiations culminating in the supply of a further quantity of drugs for $400 - this time 3.1 grams with a purity of, again, 13½ per cent. This time the transaction took place at a McDonald's on Lane Cove Road at Ryde.