R v LENTON [2009] NSWDC 332

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: R v LENTON [2009] NSWDC 332

22 May 2009 HEARING DATE(S): 7 August 2009 30 October 2009

JUDGMENT DATE: 30 October 2009

JURISDICTION: District Court Criminal

JUDGMENT OF: Berman SC DCJ

DECISION: Ms Lenton is sentenced to imprisonment. I set a non-parole period of two years and a head sentence of four years to date from 22 May 2008. This means that Ms Lenton is eligible to be released to parole on 21 May 2010.

CATCHWORDS: Criminal law - Sentence - Form 1 - Ongoing supply of drugs - Conditional liberty - Participation in Binyani program

LEGISLATION CITED: Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985

PARTIES: The Crown Suzanne Luisa Lenton

FILE NUMBER(S): DC 08/11/1184

COUNSEL: A Radojev - Offender

SOLICITORS: Director of Public Prosecutions Jack Rigg Solicitors - Offender

SENTENCE

1 HIS HONOUR: Suzanne Lenton appears for sentence today after having pleaded guilty at an early stage to an offence of ongoing supply of drugs. She asks that when I sentence her for that matter I take into account two matters on a Form 1. They related to possession of some drugs and also her possession of items which may have reasonably thought to have been stolen. The substantive matter covers seven separate acts of supply committed on 29 April, two on 5 May, 8 May, 14 May, and two on 22 May, the day she was arrested. In total she supplied somewhere around 4 grams of methylamphetamine to an undercover police officer.

2 He was introduced to her and began purchasing drugs from her in the following circumstances. He would attend at her premises, tell her how much he wanted and then together they would drive to another location where Ms Lenton would obtain the drugs and hand them over to him. On occasion she obtained the drugs from a Mr Eleman a man who I earlier sentenced and a Mr Hall who I also sentenced on an earlier occasion.