R v Jeremy CHETTY [2009] NSWDC 214

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: R v Jeremy CHETTY [2009] NSWDC 214

HEARING DATE(S): 19 June 2009

JUDGMENT DATE: 19 June 2009

JURISDICTION: Criminal

JUDGMENT OF: Berman SC DCJ

DECISION: For the offence of supplying GHB, taking into account the matter on the Form One, the offender is sentenced to imprisonment. I set a non-parole period of nine months and a head sentence of eighteen months. For the offence of supplying methylamphetamine, the offender is sentenced to imprisonment. I set a fixed term of six months. That is a fixed term because it is a sentence on the first matter I have just announced.

CATCHWORDS: Criminal law - Sentence - Supply prohibited drug - Gamma butryolactone - Methylamphetamine - Appropriate medical care in custody

LEGISLATION CITED: Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985

PARTIES: The Crown Jeremy Chetty

FILE NUMBER(S): DC 2009/22/0243

COUNSEL: B Longville - Offender

SOLICITORS: NSW DPP Armstrong Legal

SENTENCE

1 HIS HONOUR: Jeremy Chetty appears for sentence today after having pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity to two offences. The first was an offence of supplying a prohibited drug relating to the drug GHB. The second was also an offence of supplying a prohibited drug, this time relating to a quantity of methylamphetamine. When I sentence him for the first of those matters, he asks that I take into account a further offence on a Form One, namely an offence of dealing with the proceeds of crime.

2 The offences are of course very serious. The quantity of GHB involved was significant; indeed approximately half the commercial quantity. The seriousness of various types of drug is a matter that Parliament has determined when it has set out the various quantities of drugs in the schedule to the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act.