R v Bohun [2019] NSWDC 807

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Bohun [2019] NSWDC 807 Hearing dates: 25 October 2019 Decision date: 25 October 2019 Jurisdiction: Criminal Before: Haesler SC DCJ Decision: Aggregate sentence of six years imprisonment. Non parole period of three years and six months. Catchwords: SENTENCING - Multiple offences – crime spree -aggravated steal from a person - aggravated break and enter and commit assault occasioning actual bodily harm - possess prohibited weapon - Drive manner dangerous occasioning grievous bodily harm - assault occasioning actual bodily harm - contravene apprehended violence order - take and dive conveyance – assault.

SENTENCING - Relevant factors on sentence – erratic behaviour – unprovoked violence- multiple victims- offences while on conditional liberty- breach of domestic violence order- series of offences – multiple victims – impact on victims – offender's intoxication – need for rehabilitation. Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1900 Weapons Prohibition Act 1998 Cases Cited: Mill v The Queen (1988) 166 CLR 59 Ponfield (1999) 48 NSWLR 327 R v Dunn (2004) 144 A Crim R 180 R v Errington (2005) 157 A Crim R 553 Whyte (2002) 55 NSWLR 252 Weininger v The Queen (2003) 212 CLR 629 Category: Sentence Parties: Adam David Bohun (the offender) Director of Public Prosecutions Representation: Counsel: Mr Z Kahn (for the offender)

Solicitors: Mr T McGeachy (for the offender) Mr A Tonks, for the Director of Public Prosecutions File Number(s): 2018/00276064; 2018/00280312; 2018/00280325