R v Mohammed Fahda [2012] NSWSC 114

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Mohammed Fahda [2012] NSWSC 114 Hearing dates: 2 December 2011 Decision date: 24 February 2012 Jurisdiction: Common Law - Criminal Before: Harrison J Decision: Sentenced to a non-parole period of 14 years, which will be taken to have commenced on 28 September 2009 and which will expire on 27 September 2023, and a balance of term of 6 years, commencing on 28 September 2023 and expiring on 27 September 2029. The first day upon which the offender will be eligible for release on parole is 28 September 2023. Catchwords: CRIMINAL LAW - sentence - murder - offender with long-standing paranoid psychosis and below average intelligence - chance meeting with victim - recent history of interfamily enmity and violence including murder of offender's brother - where offender's mental illness critical to assessment of proper sentence - where offender in segregation - onerous conditions of incarceration Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1900 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 Cases Cited: Lewis v R [2011] NSWCCA 206 Markarian v The Queen [2005] HCA 25; (2005) 228 CLR 357 Muldrock v The Queen [2011] HCA 39 Nguyen v R [2007] NSWCCA 363; (2007) 180 A Crim R 267 R v AJP [2004] NSWCCA 434; (2004) 150 A Crim R 575 R v Anderson (1980) 2 A Crim R 379 R v Bell (1985) 2 NSWLR 466 R v Bollen (1998) 99 A Crim R 510R v Borg [2010] NSWSC 951 R v Cooper [2005] NSWSC 791 R v Garforth (unreported, NSWCCA, 23 May 1994) R v George [2004] NSWCCA 247; (2004) 149 A Crim R 38 R v Heffernan [2005] NSWSC 739 R v Hemsley [2004] NSWCCA 228 R v Hillsley [2006] NSWCCA 312; (2006) 164 A Crim R 252 R v Israil [2002] NSWCCA 255 R v Matheson [2006] NSWSC 332 R v Owens [2008] NSWSC 1375 R v Previtera (1997) 94 A Crim R 76 R v Saalfeld [2007] NSWSC 376 R v Shepherd [2006] NSWSC 799 R v Way [2004] NSWCCA 131; (2004) 60 NSWLR 168 Category: Sentence Parties: Crown Mohammed Fahda (Offender) Representation: T W Thorpe (Crown) P Hamill SC (Offender) S Kavanagh, Solicitor for Public Prosecutions (Crown) Oxford Legal (Offender) File Number(s): 2009/39990