R v CURREEN [2010] NSWDC 247

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: R v CURREEN [2010] NSWDC 247

HEARING DATE(S): 2 - 3 September 2010

JUDGMENT DATE: 3 September 2010

JURISDICTION: District Court

JUDGMENT OF: Berman SC DCJ

DECISION: The overall effective sentence is one consisting of a non parole period of eighteen years and nine months and a head sentence of twenty five years.

CATCHWORDS: CRIMINAL LAW - Sentence - Serial rapist - Forms 1 - Aggravated sexual assault - Assault with intent to commit a serious indictable offence - Inflict actual bodily harm with intent to have sexual intercourse - Larceny - Indecent assault - Entering into inclosed lands

LEGISLATION CITED: Crimes Act 1900

CASES CITED: R v K 2000 NSW SC 176

PARTIES: The Crown Shannon Curreen

FILE NUMBER(S): DC 2009/00191262

COUNSEL: Ms B Rigg - Offender

SOLICITORS: Director of Public Prosecutions Legal Aid Commission - Offender

SENTENCE

1 HIS HONOUR: The offender Shannon Curreen appears for sentence on eight counts involving serious sexual assault on women who were strangers to him. He asks when I sentence him for those matters that I take into account a number of other matters including four other offences of indecent assault committed on four further women.

2 It is a remarkable thing to note that the offender has assaulted a total of twelve women, some in a most serious way, indeed. Ten of those victims suffered in a frenzy of offending over four days between 30 July 2009 and 2 August 2009, but his offending began much earlier than that.

3 I remind those here present that although I will be using the names of the victims of these offences in my remarks on sentence there is to be no publication of anything which will identify them or tend to identify them.