R v Haddad [2007] NSWDC 82

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: R v Haddad [2007] NSWDC 82

HEARING DATE(S): 01/02/07

JUDGMENT DATE: 15 February 2007

JURISDICTION: Criminal

JUDGMENT OF: Norrish QC DCJ

DECISION: See para 73 to 78.

CATCHWORDS: Criminal Law - sentence - armed robbery with dangerous weapon - young offender - totality.

LEGISLATION CITED: Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999

R v Henry (1999) 46 NSWLR 346 R v Thomson & Houlton(2000) 49 NSWLR 383 R v Pham (1991) 55 A Crim R 12 Pearce v The Queen (1998) 194 CLR 610 The Queen v Moffitt (1990) 20 NSWLR 114 R v Blackburn & Walters [2001] NSWCCA 121 CASES CITED: Yardley v Betts (1979) 22 SASR 108 The Queen v Lattouf (unrep, 1996 NSWCCA) R v Engert (1995) 84 A Crim R 67 R v Letteri (unrep, 18/03/92 NSWCCA) R v Israil [2002] NSWCCA 255 R v Hemsley [2004] NSWCCA 228 Regina v Perrin [2001] NSWCCA 422 Regina v Tarek [2004] NSWCCA 401

PARTIES: Regina Mouhamed Haddad

FILE NUMBER(S): 06/11/0667; 06/11/0675; 06/11/0751; 06/11/0916

COUNSEL: Mr M Shaw - Offender

SOLICITORS: M Finlay - DPP - Crown

SENTENCE

1 HIS HONOUR: The offender Mouhamed Haddad appears today for sentence in relation to, as I understand it, five counts of armed robbery with a dangerous weapon committed respectively on 8 March, twice on 13 March, once on 15 March and once on 17 March 2006, one count of robbery in company committed on 5 March 2006 and one count of detain for advantage in company occasioning actual bodily harm committed on the same date and at the same time in effect as the robbery in company committed on 5 March 2006.