Regina v Jim Mouroufas [2007] NSWDC 333

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: Regina v Jim Mouroufas [2007] NSWDC 333

HEARING DATE(S): 29/3/07 and 15/05/07

JUDGMENT DATE: 15 May 2007

JURISDICTION: District Court of New South Wales

JUDGMENT OF: Cogswell SC DCJ at 1

DECISION: Parole order varied - supervision condition revoked.

CATCHWORDS: Criminal law - Parole order - Supervision condition - Ill health of offender and his wife - Interests of justice

LEGISLATION CITED: s43 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999

PARTIES: Regina Jim Mouroufas

FILE NUMBER(S): 07/11/0231

SOLICITORS: Ms Jeffreys for the NSW DPP Mr Mouroufas representing himself

JUDGMENT

1. On 29 March 2007 I sentenced Mr Jim Mouroufas to a period of imprisonment in respect of matters to which he had pleaded guilty. The non-parole period I directed to expire on that date or shortly before that date. The parole period commenced on that date and expires in June next year.

2. Mr Mouroufas comes from South Australia where his wife and children reside. I recommended in my sentence that steps be taken to transfer his parole including supervision to South Australia so that he could be with his family.

3. Mr Mouroufas has been pursuing that course through the New South Wales parole authorities but it is taking a long time. He has recently been told that it might be several months more. He has tendered before me today two medical certificates which I have admitted and will mark as exhibits 1 and 2. One of them concerns the health of his wife and is from a medical practitioner who is treating her and is dated 17 April 2007. Without going into the details of the condition for which she is being treated, the doctor expressed the view that it would "help her treatment immensely if her husband can return to Adelaide to support her through her illness ASAP". A second certificate was obtained by Mr Mouroufas from his own medical practitioner Dr Buckley. It was dated 23 April 2007. It points out that he has been suffering diabetes and that condition has deteriorated over the last few years partly due to the inadequate diet which he received during the period of his imprisonment.