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Other Evidence in the Crown Case

43 The offender's criminal history shows that he was born in November 1990. He is now 33 years old.

44 He first came under the notice of the criminal courts when he was convicted in August 2009 of an offence of breaking, entering and stealing. He was placed on a bond pursuant to the now repealed s 9 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) for a period of 3 years, with a condition requiring him to accept supervision from the Probation and Parole Service, particularly with respect to counselling, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

45 During the currency of that bond, the offender breached it, being charged with and later convicted of stealing from a dwelling and disposing of stolen property, receiving for the former a sentence of 9 months imprisonment, suspended pursuant to the repealed s 12 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act, which required him to enter detoxification and thereafter long-term rehabilitation programmes with Odyssey House.

46 In June 2015 a conviction for possession of a prohibited drug was recorded and a fine imposed. Just a few months later, in October 2015, the offender was again convicted and fined for having possession of a prohibited drug. In November of that same year, he was placed on a s 9 bond for larceny. He breached the bond by the commission, in March 2016, of an offence contrary to the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) of attempting to possess a marketable quantity of an unlawfully imported border-controlled drug ("the Code offence"). The offender was sentenced for the Code offence on 8 September 2017 to a term of 6 years and 6 months imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 3 years and 9 months fixed. A concurrent term of 4 months imprisonment was imposed on the same date for the breach of the s 9 bond.

47 The offender was released to parole on 7 December 2019 and was subject to that parole when he murdered Charlise Mutten. His parole was revoked on 19 January 2022, with a warrant later issuing pursuant to s 19AW(1) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) after a further grant of parole was refused.[1] He served the


  1. Ex. SA.13.