R v PAXTON [2009] NSWDC 326

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: R v PAXTON [2009] NSWDC 326

HEARING DATE(S): 6 November 2009

JUDGMENT DATE: 6 November 2009

JURISDICTION: District Court Criminal

JUDGMENT OF: Berman SC DCJ

For the offence of receiving I set a fixed term of imprisonment of three years to date from 10 May 2008. For the offence of supplying a commercial quantity of cocaine I set a fixed term of imprisonment of eight years to date from 10 May 2009. DECISION: For the offence of supplying a large commercial quantity of methylamphetamine I set a fixed term of imprisonment of twelve years to date from 10 May 2011. For the offence of supplying a large commercial quantity of ecstasy I set a non-parole period of sixteen years, that will commence on 10 May 2013, and a balance of parole of seven years. This means that the offender will be eligible to be released to parole on 9 May 2029. The overall sentence is one of a non-parole period of twenty-one years with a head sentence of twenty-eight years. In each case I have taken into account the relevant form 1 matters.

CATCHWORDS: Criminal Law - Sentence - Form 1 - Plea of guilty - Supply a commercial quantity of cocaine - Supply a large commercial quantity of methylamphetamine - Supply a large commercial quantity of ecstasy - Receiving - Supply to pay debts

CASES CITED: R v Kalache (2000) 111 A Crim R 152 Regina v Walsh and Little [2005] NSWSC 125

PARTIES: The Crown Mark Allan Paxton

FILE NUMBER(S): DC 2009/8173

COUNSEL: Mr S Cairns - Offender

SOLICITORS: NSW DPP

SENTENCE

1 HIS HONOUR: Mark Allan Paxton appears to be sentenced after having supplied enormous quantities of drugs, quantities rarely seen in the courts. Overall he supplied about eight and a half kilograms of ecstasy, 335 grams of cocaine, 2.3 kilograms of methylamphetamine, almost half a kilo of an admixture of heroin, and almost 6 kilograms of cannabis. Those figures alone show the enormous extent of Mr Paxton's criminality.