R v Hraichie (No. 2) [2019] NSWSC 765

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Hraichie (No. 2) [2019] NSWSC 765 Hearing dates: 21 June 2019 Date of orders: 21 June 2019 Decision date: 21 June 2019 Before: Johnson J Decision: An order is made that the letter from the Offender, which is Annexure A to the affidavit of Senior Assistant Superintendent Poulsen sworn 29 May 2019, is not to be published. That order operates until further order of the Court and applies throughout the Commonwealth of Australia. Catchwords: CRIMINAL LAW - Offender pleaded guilty to serious offences against the person and terrorism offence - Offender writes letter to Court after sentencing hearing but before sentence passed - extremist content of letter - Crown application for non-publication order concerning letter - non-publication order made Legislation Cited: Court Suppression and Non-publication Act 2010 Cases Cited: R v Dirani (No. 32) [2019] NSWSC 275 R v Dirani (No. 33) [2019] NSWSC 288 R v Hraichie (No. 1) [2019] NSWSC 319 Texts Cited: --- Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Regina (Crown) Bourhan Hraichie (Offender) Representation: Counsel: Ms S Callan; Ms D New (Commonwealth Crown) Mr LJ Carr SC (State Crown) Mr B Hraichie (Offender in person)

Solicitors: Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (Commonwealth Crown) NSW Director of Public Prosecutions (State Crown) File Number(s): 2016/277456 (Commonwealth); 2016/108074 (State) Publication restriction: ---