Director of Public Prosecutions v Harrison

[2016] VCC 1251

IN THE COUNTY COURT OF VICTORIA Revised
(Not) Restricted
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AT LATROBE VALLEY
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION

CR-16-00354

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

v

TRAVIS HARRISON

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JUDGE:	HIS HONOUR JUDGE SMALLWOOD
WHERE HELD:	Latrobe Valley
DATE OF HEARING:
DATE OF SENTENCE:	8 April 2016
CASE MAY BE CITED AS:	DPP v Harrison
MEDIUM NEUTRAL CITATION:	[2016] VCC 1251

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APPEARANCES:	Counsel	Solicitors
For the Director of Public Prosecutions	Mr. K. Doyle	Office of Public Prosecutions
For the Accused	Mr. R. Davis

HIS HONOUR:

1Travis Harrison, I want you to go up to Wulgunggo Ngalu.  I reckon you would love it.  All right?  You will do real well up there.  Good blokes, good people to be with, you know.  Good cultural stuff, lovely place to be.  Lots of kookaburras, stuff like that, all right?

2So what will happen if you agree to do that, the computer will not print the form out at the moment, but if you tell me that is what you want to do, I can then put that on the transcript here and then when we can get the computer to work, we'll send a copy of it to the gaol for you, to sign.

3Now we will send a letter with it, okay, so that the people at the gaol know what it is for, because you have a lot of trouble with reading and writing as I remember mate, so we will send a letter with it saying this is what this is for.  I am explaining it to you now so that you know what it is when it arrives, and what it will be is it will be a Community Corrections Order.  It will have in it various programs.  One will be the Justice Plan, all right, to get help from those people.

4One will be that I want you to go to Wulgunggo Ngalu.  There will also be one for drug and alcohol because you have really got to stop that or it is going to kill you or you are going to kill somebody else.  I mean, we both know that, and so there will be other programs that they can use to try and help you, but when you get let out, and hopefully you will be let out from Fulham, it is going to give you those supports and then hopefully get you up the scrub and you can sit back and chill out for a while. 

5What I will do is I will make it - from the time you get let out, you will be on that for a year.  Sometimes blokes stay at Wulgunggo Ngalu for a long time, you know.  So they will have that year for Corrections to get you set up and get you working and stuff.  All right.  Get all that under control.  So do you follow all that, mate?

6OFFENDER:  Yeah, yeah.

7HIS HONOUR:  Yes, all right, and can I just say I am sorry about your mum too.  I read that the other day, okay, I am sorry about that, I met your mum. 

8All right.  So that is what we will do and we will go from there.  So do you follow all that Trav?

9OFFENDER:  Yes.

10HIS HONOUR:  All right.  So we'll adjourn it now.  This will come in the mail.  We will send a letter with it, just so - and Aunty's here - so just so you know what it is; you are not signing yourself up to 10 years in gaol or anything, all right?  So do not worry about that.  All right, and we will also send a copy to Rob so he will know what you are getting as well.

11OFFENDER:  Yeah.

12HIS HONOUR:  Okay?  You follow all that mate?

13OFFENDER:  Yeah.

14HIS HONOUR:  All right.  Okay, that is what we will do.  I will probably have to - and I am making this on the uplifted matters - not the six months because it will not do that.  No matter what I try and do it seems.  Yes, all right.  Thanks for that.  Thanks Rebecca.

15MS GILROY:  Thank you.

16HIS HONOUR:  Monday 11 o'clock.  Thanks.

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