Director of Public Prosecutions v Grech, Mario
[2012] VCC 2117
•18 December 2012
| IN THE COUNTY COURT OF VICTORIA | Revised |
AT MELBOURNE
CRIMINAL DIVISION
Case No. CR-12-00251
| DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS |
| v |
| MARIO GRECH |
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JUDGE: | HER HONOUR JUDGE GAYNOR | |
WHERE HELD: | Melbourne | |
DATE OF HEARING: | ||
DATE OF SENTENCE: | 18 December 2012 | |
CASE MAY BE CITED AS: | DPP v Grech, Mario | |
MEDIUM NEUTRAL CITATION: | [2012] VCC 2117 | |
REASONS FOR SENTENCE
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APPEARANCES: | Counsel | Solicitors |
| For the Crown | Ms A. Lew | |
| For the Accused | Mr K. Ljubicic |
HER HONOUR:
1 Mario Peter Grech, you have pleaded guilty before me to: one charge of trafficking in a drug of dependence, namely amphetamine; one charge of possession of cannabis, and three summary charges of dealing with property suspected of being the proceeds of crime, which charges were uplifted for hearing on the plea pursuant to s.145 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009.
2 The facts underlying your offending are as follows. Between November 2009 and August 2010 you lived in a rooming house in Mitchell Street, Bendigo, known as Mitchell Lodge. Then in August 2010 you moved to a unit in Strathdale while still renting the Mitchell Lodge room. A police investigation revealed that between 1 October and 22 December 2010 you were dealing in amphetamines, the police monitoring more than 1600 calls and text messages on your phone between 2 and 22 December 2010. In a 21-day period, 71 people were identified as buying amphetamines from you. Your regular pattern was to spend about two hours from midday each day dealing drugs from your room at Mitchell Lodge, and occasionally dealing at a local mall, or later from an associate's house in North Bendigo, and other locations such the Bendigo Club, All Seasons Function Centre, milk bars and service stations, and outside the Scratch and Dent store in Strathdale.
3 The size of your amphetamine deals varied form an eighth of an ounce of amphetamine to deals of five to ten grams of - or five to ten thousand dollars worth of amphetamine. You were arrested at about midday on 22 December 2010, when you arrived at Mitchell Lodge. You took flight when you saw police and dropped a small plastic package, later found to contain 13 deals, containing amphetamine. You were found to have cash and three mobile phones, that had been the subject of police monitoring of you. A search of your home in Strathdale revealed recently purchased furniture and electrical goods, $23,000 in cash, a new Telstra T-Hub in its box, as well items commonly used in drug trafficking. 5.5 grams of marijuana was also located at the Mitchell Lodge room.
4 It was the prosecution case that you trafficked in an amount of methylamphetamine, falling within the high range of trafficking simpliciter. The analysis took into account your regular attendance and significant gambling at Crown Casino between October in 2010, and your purchase for $22,000 cash of a motor vehicle in late October. During this time, you were unemployed and in receipt of Centrelink benefits. You conducted a no comment record of interview.
5 Charge 1 relates to your trafficking activities. Charge 2 to the cannabis found in your possession. And the three summary charges of possessing goods suspected of being the proceeds of crime, were the $23,000 cash, the Telstra T-Hub, and the car purchased by you. The maximum penalty for trafficking simpliciter is 15 years gaol. The maximum penalty for possession of cannabis is $500, and the maximum penalty for dealing with items suspected of being the proceeds of crime is two years.
6 I now turn to your personal circumstances. You are 54 years old, the only child of your parents, who separated when you were about six, and your mother fled to Sydney with your cousin, with whom she had formed a relationship. She initially took you with her, but you were soon returned to your father after you ran away. You were thereafter brought up by your paternal grandmother who died when you were 17, and by your cousin's mother, which was difficult for you. Your father worked long hours six days a week at Birko electrical store. You attended school, but when you were 14 had a dispute with a teacher over some rings that were confiscated from you, and friends who supported you in the dispute lit a fire at the school, for which they ultimately received sentences of detention in a youth training centre of about two months. However, you were made a ward of state and were kept in Turana for about six months. You had considerable resentment, your counsel informed me, over the fact that you had been dealt with in this way, and found your time in Turana very difficult and formed criminal associations. On your release you demonstrated a dramatic change in behaviour, continuing friendships with those you had met in Turana, and did not return to school.
7 At the age of about 15 you tried to work with your father at his place of employment, but left after three months, and between the ages of 15 to 17 lived an almost transient existence with friends, occasionally returning home. In July 1975 you were convicted of charges of theft and assault in company, and because you gave a false date of birth in order to join friends of yours who were in the adult prison Pentridge, you served two months there.
8 You had previously been placed on probation for larceny and public offence convictions. In 1975 you were also fined for theft of a motor vehicle and burglary. In 1976 you were placed on three years probation for burglary, fined for unlicensed driving, and for theft, and ultimately fined for assault in company.
9 On your release from gaol you met Sue, whom you married, and you settled down for some years and did not appear again before a court until August 1983. You and Sue lived in a flat in Fairfield, and you worked as a sub-contractor driving tip trucks and bobcats. In 1983 you got into an argument over a car and were placed on a bond for theft of motor vehicle. You settled down again, and there was no further offending until 1986, when you received a community-based order for unlawful possession. In that time you and Sue moved addresses a few times, then returned to Reservoir to live in a house left to her by her grandmother, which then became the family home for several decades.
10 The work you were undertaking dried up, and you began associating with old friends who had been offenders. In 1987 you were gaoled for two months on a charge of being armed with an offensive weapon, and were fined that year for blackmail, an offence on which you were unable to give clear instructions, fined again for unlawful possession, and then gaoled in November of 1987 for intentionally causing injury.
11 You fell into drug use after you formed an extramarital relationship with a woman who was herself a drug user, and you were twice dealt with in 1987 and fined for possessing a drug of dependence. In 1988 you were sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with a minimum of 12 months for trafficking heroin, your habit having grown substantially in that time, as well as you serving a month for dangerous driving. In August 1988 you were convicted of manslaughter, which related to your extramarital relationship. Your counsel told me you had a falling-out with this woman, and she then moved in with known drug traffickers. You attended the house where she was and an argument broke out. You had a gun with you which discharged when you struck a man, the shot hit the girl, and she died. You received a sentence of four years' imprisonment with a minimum of two years for that offence.
12 You returned to your wife on your release, but immediately fell back into criminal activity, mainly trafficking, you having resumed your heroin habit. In 1993 your first son was born and in that year you were sentenced to six years and eight months' imprisonment, with a minimum of five years and two months for trafficking in a drug of dependence. On your release from prison you again returned to live with your wife, who continued to support you, but returned to the business of trafficking in drugs and to using drugs. In 2000, your son was diagnosed with autism, your wife stopped working to care for him, and he still remains in her care at the age of 19.
13 In June 2000 you received four years and six months' gaol with a minimum term of three years for trafficking heroin, which related to one large transaction. In the time you had been at liberty you were also arrested for other offences for which you were dealt with in 2000 and 2001, including driving charges, possessing a regulated weapon, and possessing a drug of dependence. Your second son was born in 1999 while you were on remand in prison, awaiting your trial for the trafficking heroin, for which you were sentenced in June 2000.
14 Again, on your release you returned to trafficking, this time amphetamines, cocaine and ecstasy, and in September 2006 were sentenced to six years and six months' imprisonment, with a four year minimum, you having been arrested and remaining on remand since about 2004. In August 2007 you received a ten month sentence, six months of which was ordered to be served concurrently for trafficking ecstasy, which you had been charged with prior to the 2006 sentence for trafficking.
15 You were released from gaol in 2009. By this time your wife had divorced you after 35 years of marriage. For the first time you came out of gaol with nowhere to live and took accommodation at the boarding house in Mitchell Lodge. You were in an extremely low mood and immediately turned to amphetamine use. Your eldest son then became extremely ill with pneumonia in mid 2009, and was in a coma for two weeks. You told psychologist Dr Julie Janev, whose report dated 10 August 2012 was tendered on the plea, that you began using amphetamines in a controlled way, its usefulness also including a capacity by you to stay awake at the hospital where your son was. However that drug use rapidly increased and you turned to trafficking to again support your habit.
16 It was Dr Janev's opinion that at the time of your offending you were suffering from a major depression, that you have an antisocial personality, which she believed dated back to your early childhood, and an amphetamine dependence disorder. It was her view that over the years negative peer influence, anxiety, institutionalisation and gambling addictions have been related to your offending. Indeed, I note that on this occasion surrounding the trafficking, you engaged in, as I have already said, it was clear you were attending Crown Casino on a regular basis.
17 She said that current testing revealed in you mild depression and levels of stress and anxiety in the normal range, meaning that the major depressive disorder you were suffering from at the time of your offending, according to Dr Janev, is now in remission. You have been in gaol since being arrested on these offences. You suffered two heart attacks in 2002, and had type 2 diabetes for which you received insulin injections. A neuropsychological assessment by clinical neurosurgeon Isabella Walters did no reveal any evidence of any cognitive impairment or acquired brain injury. In her report dated 22 September 2009 Ms Walters said she found you to be at that time experiencing moderate depression, which she said was making it harder for you than others to manage your incarceration.
18 Overall, Mr Grech, you present as a man who has been a non-stop professional criminal for many years. You have been a profession drug trafficker for many many years and have received substantial sentences for that activity which appear not to have deterred you in any way. Relevant to that may have been the fact that each time you were sentenced and then released into the community you were able to return to the wife who supported you. I do accept the situation had changed when you were released in 2009 because of your wife's actions in divorcing you, and that the offending you engaged in represented a collapse back into what was a normal activity for you in order to support the amphetamine habit, you quickly resumed while in the state of depression and loneliness in the aftermath of living apart from your family, and because of the anxiety surrounding your son's illness. I also accept that the loss of your marriage and contact with your children has hit you very hard. You counsel on the plea did try to explain to me how it was that your life had turned out as it did, but of greatest assistance to me in that exercise was a ten-page letter written by you to this court. Judges often receive letters from persons they are about to sentence. They generally have little effect and are usually of not much use in the sentencing task. However this is one of those rare occasions where such a letter has proven to be an extremely useful source of information, both in terms of explaining the course of your life, why it took the disastrous turns that it did, and in persuading me that you have this time reached a place of despair over that life, which is of course a very dark place for you, but which is also potentially a place of hope. It is very difficult, Mr Grech, to reform your life until you have hit the wall, and I am satisfied from what I regard as your very genuine and honest letter to this court that your prospects of rehabilitation may be brighter now than they have been for many years.
19 Your letter was an exceptional one, Mr Grech, in that in my view it rang entirely true, and was not an attempt to manipulate the court for a better outcome. And it clearly and graphically described your development from a troubled child to an entrenched criminal drug abuser and trafficker. I regard it as exceptional and will ensure it is forwarded to the parole board for their consideration when the time comes for your release. I regarded your letter as most useful both in terms of determining appropriate sentence, but also as of being potentially great assistance to the Parole Board in determining the conditions of your release.
20 In short terms, your letter described a violent and hostile relationship between your parents, both of whom you loved, and both of whom it would seem did not hesitate to use you in their war against each other. I accept that this left you from an early age with deep feelings of insecurity, and of being unloved. You spoke of your inability to bring friends home in case a violent fight erupted, your fear of escalation if alcohol was involved, the desire for a normal life, and ultimate rebellion not only against the demand that you choose one parent over another, but also the harsh punishments that were meted out to you, often for reasons which you did not understand.
21 Advice from your school that you receive psychological assistance was refused by your father, you believe because he did not want the domestic situation to come to light. You tried to run away from home many times, and it would seem that this may have ultimately been behind the decision to make you a ward of state when you were charged over the school fire. You spoke of acquaintances in Turana who were older and all on their way to Pentridge. You spoke of the violence and abuse you were subjected to. You spoke of the terror you felt, the feelings that you had no one to love or care for you, and that you learned to put on a false image in order to survive. You describe the experience of being placed in Pentridge at the age of 16 in horrific terms. You describe hearing "The screams that echoed through the wards at night, many times of inmates that had killed themselves or had been killed or stabbed, raped, and I count all the dark times."
22 You said that your one saving grace was your wife, to whom you remained married for 35 years, until you said very honestly, "She could not take my going to prison any longer." You stated very honestly that you felt you had only yourself to blame for this, and described the loss of her and the children as if your right arm had been cut off, stating: "any foundation and stability that I may have had was removed."
23 Your former wife you said was your only confidante, the only person to whom you could speak, even partially, of the dark experiences of your youth. Generally you stated: "In every situation I have found myself back in prison over drugs and gambling problems, and my record speaks for itself. My life is a disgrace and at times I know that I have learnt nothing, and my psychological torment is beyond repair. I feel like I have a deep sickness because I can't seem to go a day without wanting to throw a deck of cards on the table in prison or a casino in an attempt to bet a winner."
24 You spoke also of your great need to avoid the loneliness of your childhood, talking about "In prison, Your Honour, as cruel as it sounds, when you use drugs you are part of the gambling crew, people talk to you and become your friends, and you feel socially accepted, even if only for those few hours a day."
25 You said it was not even really about the money or drugs, "It's about acceptance and addiction. I am ashamed, but it's all I know." Your letter went on to talk about your children, whom you described as the best part of your life, that "It comforted me to be a father and love them, and that they in turn loved me unconditionally, and most of all I could teach them never to be like the dirtbag father such as me, and to value the things they have in their life."
26 You have clearly, from the letter, looked back over your life in some depth, and described very sadly that you feel as if your whole life has been in prison, a place that you despise, and made the telling point that "When you have a little money and you have availability of drugs, you have an instant group of friends around you that don't judge you, and don't have to be in that lonely bare room that stinks of old age and makes you vomit at the thought of being scared and lonely every night. It's no different than prison. The fears are the same, the dependency the same, and the environment the same."
27 That letter, as I have said, I accept as a true description of the situation you found yourself in when you were released from gaol in 2009, and your wife had divorced you. It would seem that over the years, Mr Grech, partly through a system that failed you as a young teenager, who came from a deeply troubled home, and partly because you yourself chose a particular way of living, you have carried with you a number of deep psychological traumas which have never been addressed by yourself or with professional help. The tone of your letter was a desperate plea for therapeutic assistance, and a plea also that in sentencing you I put something in place where that need can be attended to. I accept, Mr Grech, that the sort of services you require are in short supply in prison, it is always a matter of regret to this court, I might add, that that's the case. I regret to inform you that it is not in my power to surround you with the sort of services you now wish to avail yourself of. But you yourself have begun taking steps within prison this time round that will, despite the lack of psychological services, that in my view you do desperately require, assist you to get onto the path and a way of living that you now desire, that is a normal life with a job. This time in gaol you have completed a trade certificate in cooking, you have completed a baker's course, and are working as a baker in the gaol. This is the first time, as I understand it, that you have taken steps to employ yourself in prison, and I regard this as a most significant and promising step. I am of the view that the loss of your marriage and the separation from your children has caused you to make a bitter reflection of your life and to identify the areas of it, to put it mildly, that need attention. The problem is that the services that I have said you very much require are not available to you in gaol in any meaningful degree. I make a point of saying that it is your efforts that have put you at the start of the path that you do, I accept, hope to follow. Because - I apologise for philosophising in my sentencing remarks, it is important to remember that even in the most dark and lonely places, you still have yourself.
28 It is evident that you fear your release back into the community. You fear the loneliness, the demons and the nightmares, especially now you do not have the support of your wife. It seems to me you fear that you will inevitably return to the use of drugs, to gambling, as a means of avoiding those inner demons that inevitably arise when you're alone. It seems to me imperative that on your release from prison you start off in a residential drug program, where these issues can be addressed, that is, the issues underlying your drug and gambling addictions, the trauma of your childhood and so forth in a therapeutic environment. I make these remarks very plainly, and advisedly in the hope they will be regarded by the Parole Board when the time comes for your release. Going into such a community will also help assist you in avoiding the loneliness that you dread so much.
29 In the meantime, it is a matter for you, Mr Grech. You are capable of sourcing organisations that attend on the gaol, for example the Moreland Hall program, in order to organise a bed for yourself in a residential drug treatment facility on your release. You know this, Mr Grech. I know they are not going to do a lot for you while you are in gaol, but you can make contact with organisations so that if you - when you go to the Parole Board you can say "I have been in contact with this organisation, whether it is Moreland Hall, whether it is Odyssey, and say "This is where I want to go on release, and this is where I can go." That is going to be very important to you. If you are released into a therapeutic environment into a community rather than that lonely boarding house room that you are so frightened of, that is going to be the most promising start for you. As I said, I can't order that certain services be delivered to you in gaol. I can make the point that they should be, that it is a matter of regret that they are not. But I guess what I am also trying to say to you is that you are not going to get anywhere with your life until you do hit the wall, horrible place though it is, you have hit it, and there are things that you can do without having to be reliant on everybody else, and that is one of my suggestions to you.
30 Another way of seeking assistance is to use Legal Aid services when they visit the gaol and ask them to link you up with the sort of facility you could live in on your release, all right? I was very much moved by your letter, Mr Grech, and I have to say that in my years as a judge I have, as I have said, received many letters from accused's persons, they have generally had little effect upon me, but yours has, and that is important, because as I said earlier, in my view, you do have - shaky though they might be, better prospects of rehabilitation at this desperate, dark stage of your life that you have had for many many years. At the end of the day of course, because of your offending, because of your very serious prior criminal history involving offending of exactly the same type as that for which I must now sentence you, there is no other way I can deal with you other than by way of a sentence of imprisonment to be immediately served.
31 In sentencing you, and in talking of the prospect of rehabilitation that in my view you now have, I can do no better than refer to the last sentence of your letter as an explanation of why I reacted to your letter as I have. You stated: "I know I can now do better, and ask humbly and cry in pain for Her Honour for the hand of mercy that I may be a better man." I very much hope for your sake, Mr Grech, that you can be a better man, and a much happier man. I hope you can achieve some peace, and I hope you can achieve the normal life that you now at this quite late stage in your life so earnestly want. But I also hope you recognise that you are capable of achieving things for yourself, indeed you already have, of organising your life from gaol before you actually leave it, perhaps in the ways that I have suggested. In sentencing you, I do take into account your plea of guilty, which in my view does represent remorse, and has saved the community a great deal of the time and expense of a trial. I take into account the matters raised in your letter. I take into account the personal circumstances you have found yourself in on your release from gaol as being the context in which that offending occurred. I accept those, although somewhat guardedly, that you do have prospects of rehabilitation.
32 Your offending was extremely serious and entrenched in a repetition of the offending, as I have said, that you carried out for so many years. But I also accept the complex reasons attached to it, and explained so well by you in your letter. I therefore sentence you as follows. Could you stand up please, Sir?
33 On the charge of trafficking, I sentence you to five years' imprisonment.
34 On the charge of possessing cannabis, I fine you $100.
35 On each of the charges of dealing with the proceeds of - dealing with property suspected of being the proceeds of crime, I sentence you to four months' imprisonment, and I order that one month of each of those sentences on those summary charges be served cumulatively to the sentence I have imposed for trafficking and with each other, giving a total effective sentence of five years and three months. I order that you serve three years before becoming eligible for parole.
36 Now, what is the time served?
37 MR LJUBICIC: It's 21 days, Your Honour, on this sentence, and then he also had his parole cancelled on his - - -
38 HER HONOUR: All right, let me just - we didn't really canvass that. How much did he have to serve on parole? Two and a half years. All right, I wasn't aware of that, that wasn't really canvassed in the plea. Just have a seat, I might redo that, because now we've got a - have a seat, Mr Grech. There's totality situation. So you've got two and a half years, and then there's three years on top of that. That's five and a half years. I think that's too much.
39 MS LEW: Your Honour, I don't have the relevant documentation here to assist the court. I understand that some time that has been served. I can make those enquiries, to see how much of the parole remains.
40 HER HONOUR: Well Mr Grech said two and a half years - - -
41 MS LEW: Well that was how much was recalled, he has been serving that parole - - -
42 HER HONOUR: Yes, but if he's serving two and a half years, then the three years minimum that I've ordered has to be served on top of that, and I think - unless there are exceptional circumstances, I don't, there are no exceptional circumstances, but taking the principles of totality, I think that's too much.
43 MS LEW: Yes, Your Honour, I believe it's in the area of two years and seven months.
44 HER HONOUR: Two years and seven months, all right, what I'll do it, I'm going to revisit that. The sentences will remain the same in terms of the actual sentences imposed, but because of the principle of totality, because of the, because of the fact that he has had to serve a period of parole, which I understand to be in the region of between two and a half years and two years seven months, I'm going to order that the minimum term be 18 months rather than three years, all right?
45 MS LEW: Yes.
46 HER HONOUR: And I order that 21 days of that have been served by way of pre-sentence detention.
47 So that means you are going to be on parole for quite a long time, Mr Grech, all right? Stand up, Sir. All right? Now, I'm adding 18 months on - so that is 18 months that's added onto that, I am sure that is more than you hoped, but you are where you are, Mr Grech, and that will mean overall that the minimum term you will have served will be in the order of four years, all right? But you have already served a fair chunk of that already since December 2010.
48 VOICE (from body of court): (Inaudible).
49 HER HONOUR: Pardon?
50 PRISONER: Two years, Your Honour.
51 HER HONOUR: Yes, all right. So I am adding about 18 months to that.
52 PRISONER: Yes.
53 MR LJUBICIC: Your Honour, just to be clear, I found my note on it when his parole was revoked on 12 January, he had two years, seven months and eight days remaining to serve.
54 HER HONOUR: All right. So I am going to - that's why I am making, because of the requirement that any sentence I serve be served cumulative to any period of parole, revoked parole that Mr Grech is serving. I am taking the unusual step because of the principles of totality, of putting a head sentence of five years, but with a minimum term of 18 months. All right?
55 MR LJUBICIC: Yes, Your Honour.
56 HER HONOUR: So, Mr Grech, I wish you well, I really do. I think - I know it's a very hard place for you. No one likes to go there, but when people have lived the life that you have, you do have to go there, because otherwise you're not going to come out the other end. Do you think you can, I'm sure you can really, you know gaol well, do you think you can source out the sort of residential facility that I'm referring to?
57 PRISONER: Yes, yeah, I'm sure I'll be able to.
58 HER HONOUR: All right. Does that seem like a reasonably idea to you?
59 PRISONER: Yeah.
60 HER HONOUR: All right. You want those sort of issues dealt with, that's the place that's going to do it for you. It won't be terribly easy, but it won't be a boarding house either. And it's the boarding house that's going to lead you into trouble, because otherwise you've got nowhere to go. And I make the comment that if that's what you do do, and if that's where you do go, that represents the best outcome for you and for the community. All right?
61 PRISONER: Thanks very much.
62 HER HONOUR: The other thing too, Mr Grech, again, it's just a suggestion, but have you made any contact with Sue since you have been in custody?
63 PRISONER: I ring my children every couple of weeks, Your Honour, so I you know.
64 HER HONOUR: Well, look, you were capable of writing a very good letter to me through the assistance of whoever it was who wrote that letter for this court, all right? I'm suggesting you might engage in the same exercise with your former wife. Not in terms of trying to revive the relationship, but in terms of setting up some sort of reasonable relationship with herself, and your kids, whilst you're in gaol, all right? So that you've got something set up with her as well, that means you're going to have reasonable contact when you come out. You've got plenty of time to plan what you're going to do when you come out, rather than just stumbling out with nothing. All right? You've already got yourself a - you've already got yourself a bit of a trade, a bit of a skill, that you can turn to, which is terrific, but you need to plan your release this time, just don't leave it up to the Parole Board
65 PRISONER: Yes, that's true.
66 HER HONOUR: And end up where they're going to tell you. If you can say "This is what I have worked on, this is what I'm planning for, this is what I need to do," parole will be very much better for you, and as I said, it just seems to me that a therapeutic community, even though you'll be dealing with other drug users, and there'll be lots of temptations and so forth, at least you will be surrounded by the sort of assistance you need, and if you've got the determination, you'll be able to do it. All right?
67 PRISONER: Thanks very much, Your Honour.
68 HER HONOUR: No worries, Mr Grech, thank you.
69 MR LJUBICIC: Your Honour, s.6AAA - - -
70 HER HONOUR: Pursuant to s.6AAA, I declare that had you not pleaded guilty, I would have sentenced you to a term of imprisonment of six years, with a minimum of four.
71 Have a seat. Now, I've got some orders to sign. What's the date today? Who helped you write the letter?
72 PRISONER: (Indistinct).
73 HER HONOUR: Pardon?
74 PRISONER: (Indistinct).
75 HER HONOUR: Good. You tell him he did a good job. Have a seat. All right, there are the orders. I thank counsel for their assistance in the matter. Thank you (indistinct) for his assistance in the matter. Good luck to you, Mr Grech. All right, thank you, happy Christmas, everyone. Stand down.
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