Sutherland Police charged Ms Regan’s client and his partner which numerous serious offences after a search warrant at their home.
At the time of the search warrant, they were both also on bail for other fraudulent and driving offences. These offences were a combination of ‘Obtaining financial advantage by deception’, ‘possession of ID information to commit indictable offence’, ‘goods in custody’ and driving matters.
After reviewing the large brief of evidence, Ms Regan underwent lengthy negotiations with the police to reduce the quantity of charges.
One of our clients, who was originally charged with 33 offences, plead guilty to a reduced number of 19 offences, with acknowledgment that this breached a current good behaviour bond for a prior matter.
The other co-offender client, originally charged with 8 offences, pleaded guilty to a reduced number of 6 offences, which breached his current good behaviour bond for a driving matter.
Very lengthy and detailed submissions were made to the magistrate of Sutherland Local Court. After adjourning the matter to consider the penalty further, the magistrate ultimately sentenced both offenders to an Intensive Corrections Order. The partner was ordered to a home detention component due to the significant number of fraud offences committed by her.
The two were able to remain in the community to continued looking after their young children.
