R v McGourty [2002] NSWCCA 335

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION : R v McGourty [2002] NSWCCA 335 FILE NUMBER(S) : CCA 60354/02 HEARING DATE(S) : 13/8/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 13 August 2002

PARTIES : Regina Sallie Ann McGourty JUDGMENT OF : Giles JA at 54, 56; Wood CJ at CL at 1; Levine J at 55

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : District Court LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S) : 01/41/0111 LOWER COURT JUDICIAL Goldring DCJ OFFICER :

COUNSEL : Ms E Wilkins (Crown) Mr P Berman SC SOLICITORS : S E O'Connor (Crown) D J Humphreys CATCHWORDS : CRIMINAL LAW -Crown appeal against sentence - Manifestly inadequate sentence - Kidnapping - Objective criminality - Need for general deterrence - matters of aggravation - Form 1 matters- principle of totality - Subjective circumstances must be kept in perspective - sentence so disproportionate to objective criminality that error assumed. - CRIMINAL LAW -Kidnapping - planning of offence - untested statement - offence may have been spontaneous. - CRIMINAL LAW -sentencing - instinctive synthesis approach - two tiered approach - objective criminality - suspended sentence - not permissible to adjust a sentence downwards to allow it to be non-custodial. Children (Criminal Procedings) Act 1987 Crimes Act 1900 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 LEGISLATION CITED : Criminal Appeal Act 1912 Inclosed Lands Protection Act 1901 Summary Offences Act (NSW) 1988 Summary Offences Act 1988 AB v The Queen (1999) 108 CLR 101 Dinsdale v The Queen [2000] 175 ALR 315 Everett v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 295 Pearce v The Queen (1998) 108 CLR 610 Regina v Bavadra [2000] 115 A Crim R152 Regina v Blackman and Walters [2001] NSWCCA 21 Regina v Bloomfield (1998) 44 NSWLR 734 Regina v Dodd (1991) 57 A Crim R 349 CASES CITED: Regina v Elhalabi [2001] NSWCCA 516 Regina v JCE [2000] NSWCCA 498 Regina v Kalache [2000] NSWCCA 2 Regina v Lemene [2001] NSWCCA 5 Regina v Morgan [1993] 70 A Crim R 368 Regina v Quatami [2001] NSWCCA 353 Regina v Rushby (1977) 1 NSWLR 594 Regina v Thomson (2000) 49 NSWLR 396 Regina v Thwaites NSWCCA 6 October 1993 Regina v Zamagias [2002] NSWCCA 17 DECISION : Crown appeal allowed. Sentence below varied. New sentence of 3 years imprisonment, to date from 5 June 2002 and expiring 4 June 2005. Non-parole period of 2 years, to date from 5 June 2002 and expiring 4 June 2004.