Creusot v The State of Western Australia

David Peter Creusot and David Peter Howell were convicted of two counts of aggravated home burglary and aggravated armed robbery, and each sentenced to 7 years and 10 months' imprisonment. The appellants sought leave to appeal against their convictions and sentences. The court held that the appellants' alleged lies that they had never been to the premises at which the offending occurred were admissible as evidence of their guilt. The court also held that the sentences imposed by the trial judge bore a proper relationship to the overall criminality involved in the offences viewed in their entirety, and did not infringe the first limb of the totality principle. The appeals against conviction and sentence were dismissed.