R v Bazzi [2006] NSWDC 121

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: R v Bazzi [2006] NSWDC 121

JUDGMENT DATE: 24 November 2006

JUDGMENT OF: Williams DCJ at 1

DECISION: 1. She is convicted in respect of each offence on the indictment.; 2. In regard to each 8 Break Enter and Steal offences, she is sentenced to a minimum term of 4½ years imprisonment with a Total Term of 6½ years in each case. Each sentence is to date from the 27th June 2005 so that the earliest date for her release on parole will be the 26th December 2009.; 3. In respect of each Stealing offence she is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by way of a fixed term. I decline to set a non-parole period having regard to the non-parole period set in respect to the Break and Enter offences. Each of these sentences will also start from the 27th June 2005 and expire on the 26th December 2006.; 4. In respect to each receiving offence and the disposing offence she is sentenced to 12 months by way of a fixed term of imprisonment which to date from the 27th June 2005 and which has thus expired on the 26th June 2006.; I take into account the Form 1 matters on each of those counts of the indictment that they have been allocated to in the agreed statement of facts.

CATCHWORDS: Sentence - Multiple offences of BE&S and other offences - relevance of Pearces case

CASES CITED: R-v- Pearce (1998) 194 CLR 610 Attorney General's Application under s37 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999, No 1 of 2002 [2002] NSWCCA 518)

PARTIES: Regina Rania Bazzi

FILE NUMBER(S): 06/11/0354 ; 06/11/0383

COUNSEL: Crown: Mr J Henderson Defence: Mr A Barber

SOLICITORS: Solicitor for Public Prosecutions Legal Aid Commission

JUDGMENT

1 Ms Bazzi, aged 30, has pleaded guilty to an indictment containing 1 Aggravated Break Enter and Steal (in company), 7 Break Enter and Steals, 6 stealing offences, 5 Receiving offences and 1 disposing of stolen property. She also asks to be taken into account on a number of Form One's 116 other offences consisting of a further 3 Break Enter and Steals, many, many obtain benefit by deceptions, many receiving offences and some stealing and goods in custody offences.