Director of Public Prosecutions v Paul Bradley

[2022] VCC 414

IN THE COUNTY COURT OF VICTORIA

AT MELBOURNE

CRIMINAL DIVISION

Revised
Not Restricted
Suitable for Publication

Case No. CR-21-01471

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

v

PAUL BRADLEY

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JUDGE:	HER HONOUR JUDGE BLAIR
WHERE HELD:	Melbourne
DATE OF HEARING:	22 March 2022
DATE OF SENTENCE:	31 March 2022
CASE MAY BE CITED AS:	DPP v Paul Bradley
MEDIUM NEUTRAL CITATION:	[2022] VCC 414

REASONS FOR SENTENCE
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Subject:CRIMINAL LAW

Catchwords:              Sentence; Use Carriage Service to Transmit Child Abuse Material; Use Carriage Service to Access Child Abuse Material; Possess Child Abuse Material Obtained or Accessed Using a Carriage Service; General Deterrence; Exceptional Circumstances; Rehabilitation; Recognisance Release Order; Extra-Curial Punishment

Legislation Cited:      Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth); Crimes Act 1914 (Cth); Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 (Vic); Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic)

Cases Cited:R v `De Leeuw [2015] NSWCCA 183; Worboyes v R [2021] VSCA 169

Sentence:                  12 months Imprisonment released forthwith on recognisance release order with conditions

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APPEARANCES:	Counsel	Solicitors
For the DPP	Mr S. Campbell	Katherine Holdsworth C/W DPP
For the Accused	Mr R. de Vietri	Lauren Cassimatis Gallant law

HER HONOUR:

1Paul Bradley on 12 February 2021 your world changed forever. On this day you were arrested and taken into custody by members of the Australian Federal police. You were found to be in possession of child abuse material. It was established that you had transmitted and accessed such material over 18 days from 26 January 2021 until 12 February 2021.

2As a result you were charged with the following three offences;

(a)   Charge one, use carriage service to transmit child abuse material[1].

(b)   Charge two, use carriage service to access child abuse material[2].

(c)   Charge three, possess child abuse material obtained or accessed using a carriage service[3].

[1]Criminal Code Act 1995 {Cth) s 474.22(1).

[2]Ibid.

[3]Ibid s474.22A(1).

3On 23 March 2022 you pleaded guilty to these three offences.

4In addition to these offences, you admitted a scheduled offence pursuant to s16BA of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth)[4]. This offence is to be taken into account with Charge 2 on the indictment. The scheduled offence reads between 2 February 2021 and 5 February 2021, in Lysterfield, Victoria, the offender used a carriage service to cause child abuse material to be transmitted to self, contrary to subsection 474.22 (1) of the Criminal Code (Cth)[5].

[4]Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) s16BA.

[5]Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) s 474.22(1).

5The factual basis of your offending is contained in a summary of prosecution opening for plea. This document was tendered and marked Exhibit A on the plea. I do not propose to recite that document in full now rather I will briefly summarise the circumstances of your offending.

6As I mentioned, you were arrested on 12 February 2021 when members of the Australian Federal Police came to your address to execute a search warrant. They seized an Apple iPhone belonging to you and conducted a preliminary examination on that phone. They confirmed that you had installed the Kik application and had been operating that application under the name Rach B.  A further examination of the 'chats' engaged in by you via this application revealed that you had obtained and transmitted child abuse material. There was also further child abuse material stored on your phone.

7You participated in a record of interview and made substantial admissions to your offending.

8A further examination of your phone was undertaken. The police identified you had been involved in chats with 15 other users between 26 January and 12 February 2021. It was apparent child abuse material had been shared and you had purported to be a female by the name of Rach B.

9The factual basis for Charge 1 is that during the period 26 January 2021 and 12 February 2021 you transmitted child abuse material to 15 individual users. This included a total of 18 unique child abuse material videos and 18 unique child abuse material images. The transmitted material was categorised using the Interpol Baseline Four Tier Categorisation System. It was determined that you had transmitted four Category 1 images, fourteen Category 2 images, one Category 1 video and four category 2 videos.

10Examples of the material you transmitted included a Category 1 image of a girl between 8 to 10 years of age squatting down naked on a white coloured sheet with her legs spread exposing her vagina, she was sucking on a dildo, and a Category 2 video of a girl between the ages of 14 to 15 years who was stripping in a bathroom while sitting on a toilet. She was wearing a choker and a white top with a K on it, raising her leg and rubbing her vagina.

11The factual basis for Charge 2 is that during the period 2 February 2021 and 11 February 2021 you accessed child abuse material via the application Kik on a total of 44 separate occasions. The material was categorised according to the IB4TCS to include one Category 1 image, four Category 2 images, eleven Category 1 videos and eighteen Category 2 videos.

12Examples of this material include a video of a girl aged between six to eight years of age laying on a bed while an adult male attempts to insert his penis into her anus. The female is wearing a white T-shirt with other colours on it. The male has tattoos on his arms and hand and he kept saying 'keep your legs up'. In addition it included a Category 2 video of a female between 14 to 15 years of age on her knees giving oral sex to an adult male, both the male and the female were naked and the male ejaculated into the female's mouth at the end of the video.

13The 16BA scheduled offence involved three occasions where you caused child abuse material to be sent to yourself. The first of these was on 2 February 2021 where you asked another user 'how about we swap one-for-one your turn'. As a result you received a video of a female between 8 to 10 years of age laying on her back with her legs spread naked from the waist down. She inserted a white coloured item into her anus. Next, on 4 February 2021 you were asked by another user whether you like young porn and you responded 'Luv it'.  When asked if you would like to be shown some you responded 'sure'. As a result you were sent a video of a female between 7 to 8 years of age sitting down with her legs spread whilst naked. She rubbed and slapped her vagina then sucked a blue item which she then rubbed on her vagina, she then spat on her vagina and continued to rub and slap it multiple times. Lastly on 4 February 2021 you asked another user 'what have you got for me?'  The response was 'what do you want?' and you indicated 'I luv other young girls'. As a result you received a video of a female between 6 to 8 years of age laying on her back naked from the waist down while an adult male attempts to insert his penis into her anus multiple times.

14The factual basis of Charge 3 is that an examination of your Apple iPhone revealed a total of 11 videos and 5 images which were identified as child abuse material. These files were classified as five Category 2 images, three Category 1 videos and eight Category 2 videos. Examples of these files included a Category 1 video of a female between 8 to 10 years of age giving oral sex to an adult male while both were naked, she says her name is Brooklyn and she is going to do a Deep Throat. Also there was a Category 2 video of an African-American female between 12 to 13 years of age laying on her bed, her underwear gets pulled down by an adult male and she is made to rollover to expose her vagina, the adult male places his hand on her vagina.

15During your record of interview you were both forthright and candid. You made numerous admissions. You told police that you joined the Kik application as a way of obtaining adult pornography. Once you had joined you searched and joined groups that would share pornography. You said it was not your intention to obtain child abuse material and the groups that you joined went about the exchange of underage images. Once you were a member of the group you received direct messages with images attached. This turned out to be child abuse material. You did not stop and exit the group at this time, rather you continued and agree that you transmitted child abuse material you had received and had conversations with various other group members. Further, you admitted that it was a thrill because it was taboo, it was something you should not be doing.

Nature and gravity of offending

16Clearly any offences involving possession, accessing and transmission of child abuse material are inherently serious. The maximum penalty is an important yardstick when considering the objective seriousness. The maximum penalty is 15 years imprisonment for each of the charges to which you have pleaded guilty.

17Mr Bradley, it is important that you understand that the trade and exchange of child abuse material supports an industry founded on the exploitation of children. It exploits and profits from the vulnerability and innocence of children who are not only incapable of consenting to the production and/or use of these images, but who are also incapable of protecting themselves. The Internet and applications such as Kik only serve to facilitate and enhance such exploitation. There is a clear presumption of harm to the children who are the ultimate victims of your offending. The harm is both immediate and long lasting as their images will likely remain accessible indefinitely.

18It is largely for these reasons that general deterrence is the primary sentencing consideration for this type of offending. It is also for these reasons that a term of immediate imprisonment will ordinarily be imposed upon those who offend in this manner. This expectation has now been enshrined in legislation with the introduction of s20(1)(b)(ii)[6] which now requires that exceptional circumstances be established if you are to avoid an immediate term of imprisonment on a recognisance release order.

[6]Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) s 20(1)(b)(ii).

19In determining the objective seriousness of the offending the following factors are relevant:

(a)   The nature and content of the material in particular the age of the children and the gravity of the sexual activity depicted.

(b)   The number of items or images possessed.

(c)   Whether the material is for the purpose of sale or further distribution.

(d)   Whether the offender will profit from the offence.

(e)   In the case of possession or access of child pornography for personal use, the number of children depicted and thereby victimised.

(f)    The length of time for which the pornographic material was possessed[7].

[7]R v De Leeuw [2015] NSWCCA 183 72.

20With these factors in mind, I make the following observations of your offending;

(a)   You transmitted child abuse material to 15 other online users.

(b)   Your offending took place over 18 days.

(c)   The child abuse material was comprised of 18 unique videos and 18 unique images.

(d)   You accessed child abuse material on 44 separate occasions.

(e)   In total you accessed 38 images and 58 video files.

(f)    Of these five images and 15 videos depicted children under the age of 13.

(g)   The images and videos you accessed involved post and prepubescent children performing sex acts with themselves and with adult men including anal penetration and oral sex.

(h)   Your engagement with child abuse material was accompanied by conversations indicating that you 'luv it'” and 'I luv other young girls'.

(i)    There was no commercial element to your offending and there was no suggestion of sale or profit.

(j)    Your offending lacked any sophistication and was easily detectable by the authorities. The platform you used was open and little if anything was done to disguise your identity.

(k)   Your offending did not involve any coercion, manipulation or incentivising of a young person in order to obtain the images.

21I agree with your counsel that the volume of material transmitted, accessed and possessed is at the low end compared to most cases of this type. I also agree that your offending is isolated to one course of conduct over a relatively short period of time. I also consider that there is a significant amount of overlap between the offences for which you have been charged. This includes the admitted schedule offence to be taken into account. Notwithstanding these observations it is clear that your offending is serious and warrants a term of imprisonment. The real question for the court is whether this term of imprisonment should be immediately served or whether exceptional circumstances exist that would allow the court to order your release forthwith.

Personal circumstances

22Mr Bradley you are now 58 years of age. Your early family life was detailed in the report of Simon Candlish. It could be described as generally unhappy as a result of disharmony within your parent's marriage. Your father is now deceased and you keep good contact with your mother. You are the eldest of two children and have maintained a relationship with your younger sister, currently you meet up with her weekly and I note she wrote a supportive and heartfelt testimonial that was tendered on your plea and she attended court and she is here again today. She is clearly supportive of you.

23School was not difficult for you and you completed Year 12 with marks that allowed you to enter university. You enrolled in a double degree of economics and law and left this after 18 months when you realised it was likely to be long and difficult and not particularly interesting. Upon leaving university you gained employment as an insurance broker in sports injury claims. Your career in the insurance industry began at this time and you have worked consistently in this field for 38 years. Primarily you have held managerial roles that have involved the supervision of numerous staff. Your most recent position was as the state general manager for a large insurance company.

24Apart from one extremely dated drink driving offence from 1986 you have no prior criminal history. Your counsel submitted that you had led a law abiding and exemplary life, I agree. You are a family man and had been married for 33 years leading up to this offence. You have two children, Emma, 28, who is six months pregnant, and a son Luke, aged 24, who lives at the family home. It is clear that through your hard work and dedication to your family you have provided them with a stable and positive home and a very comfortable life.

25Your offending represents a huge fall from grace. You have gone from what could be described as a highly accomplished executive to a sex offender described as a 'fiend' in the press. 

26Clearly your offending has had a number of direct and drastic implications for both yourself and those close to you, these are;

(a)   You have experienced a great deal of remorse, shame, embarrassment and distress. This has been amplified in circumstances where you admitted your offending to your wife, children, some extended family and a select group of friends. You recognise that your behaviour and the consequent charges have had a terrible impact upon them and brought shame and embarrassment to your family.

(b)   The depth of your reaction to your offending is such that you have commenced anti-depressant medication as you have experienced deep emotions and have, at times been 'inconsolable'. This is against a background of never having suffered depression or anxiety.

(c)   Separation from your wife after 33 years of marriage. I note though you are working on your marriage and she remains supportive of you and I should also indicate a testimonial was tendered from her and she has been present both on the plea and is here again today, in support of you.

(d)   Total estrangement from your 24 year old son, with whom you had previously enjoyed a very close relationship. This estrangement has resulted in you having to move out of the family home into alternative accommodation where you now live alone.

(e)   Early retirement from your position as general manager of a major insurance company. In addition, I accept the submission of your counsel, that after 38 years of dedication to your career, you will be unable to work in this field, or probably any other, as a result of the nature of your offending.

(f)    Publicity, which has no doubt been extremely embarrassing and difficult to deal with and has caused further and long-lasting reputational harm to both you and your family.  I accept as has been submitted this morning, that this has taken a significant toll upon you and will probably continue to do so after today, for a while at least.

(g)   Recognising and coming to terms with personality flaws and your capacity to offend in such a manner.

27Although, there is no reason that could justify the accessing, transmitting and possession of child exploitation material I note you reported to Simon Candlish that your offending occurred in circumstances where you had experienced a loss of intimacy with your wife. Your consumption of adult pornography increased and you downloaded the Kik application. You joined various groups on this application with the intention to gain more access to adult pornography. Child exploitation material was being distributed and exchanged amongst the members of one of these groups and for 18 days you joined in this behaviour. You describe being 'sucked in', you clearly knew what you were doing was wrong and described it as taboo and as such it was a thrill. This all occurred against a history of heavy involvement in work and prioritising this over quality time with your family.

28It is the view of Simon Candlish2 that although you likely experienced sexual arousal to the child abuse material you viewed, you are not considered to meet the criteria for a paedophilic disorder or other paraphilic disorder. Your deviant arousal has occurred in the context of desensitisation and objectification after sustained immersion in pornographic material via the internet and the development of interest in prurient themes.[8]

[8]Psychological Assessment of Simon Candlish dated 8 March 2022 [60].

29After a thorough risk assessment employing the RM2000R, a test specific to child abuse material offenders, the RSVP and SAPROF tests, Simon Candlish was of the opinion that you were considered to fall into the low risk category for sexual offending of the nature outlined in the risk scenarios section. Further given you have no prior sexual offending history and there is no indication of any involvement in contact sexual offending in the past, you are considered to fall into the low-risk category for a contact sexual offence against a child.[9]

[9]Psychological Assessment of Simon Candlish dated 8 March 2022 [61-85].

30Further to this it was also Mr Candlish's view that you show good prospects for rehabilitation of sexual offending behaviour based on your presentation, your history and your assessed risk level. Given the potential for your risk level to continue to reduce over time it was Mr Candlish's view that it would be useful for you to continue to have opportunities to pursue such goals in the wider community.[10]

[10]Psychological Assessment of Simon Candlish dated 8 March 2022 [98].

Matters in mitigation

31Your counsel, in a persuasive and thorough plea has submitted that I should impose a Community Correction Order by way of disposition. His submission was predicated on the fact that your offending fell towards the low end of the scale for this type of offending as there was relatively small numbers of images and videos accessed, possessed and transmitted over a very short period of time. In terms of the quality of the child exploitation material located on your phone, Mr de Vietri made the point that the worst categories were not present. That was not to excuse what was found but he made the point, which I accept, that the objective gravity was not severely aggravated as a result of the quality of the images and videos found. Further, he submitted that a sufficiently lengthy and onerous order could satisfy the sentencing purposes demanded in a case such as this. I have had you assessed for such an order and not surprisingly, you are considered to be suitable.

32In addition, Mr de Vietri relied on a number of factors by way of mitigation. He submitted that you had demonstrated significant remorse and insight. This was displayed in a number of ways, your admissions in your record of interview, your plea of guilty, your admissions to family and friends, expressions of remorse to them as disclosed in the letters from your wife, sister and daughter, observations made by the psychologists you have seen and most importantly through your commitment and participation in counselling.

33With regard to your counselling I note that after you were charged you almost immediately engaged with Lisa Jackson and had 15 sessions with her. You are currently firmly entrenched in counselling in an offence specific sex offender treatment program with Peter Hanley of Melbourne Central Psychology. You have attended seven sessions with Mr Hanley and in his opinion

'[You have] made solid progress in the SOTP. [You have] demonstrated good development of insight into the motivations that underpinned your offending and you have developed a more realistic perspective regarding the victims of child abuse material and [your] personal role in facilitating harm towards children. [You have] made good initial progress in developing the skills needed to address the identity related emotional and interpersonal dysfunction which appears to have underpinned [your] offending behaviour.'

He is of the view that you require further sex offender treatment and I note you are committed to this course of action.

34Mr de Vietri relied upon your plea of guilty which I accept was at a very early stage and was coupled with forthright and frank admissions in your record of interview. You cooperated with authorities during the search warrant and arrest. Additionally, I accept there is a high utilitarian value in your plea of guilty and I also note what the Court of Appeal have said in recent times about a plea of guilty in the midst of the pandemic and the considerable backlogs in the court. I do intend to give you a substantial discount in these circumstances for your plea of guilty.[11]

[11]Worboyes v R [2021] VSCA 169.

35Your previous good character and exemplary work record were also relied upon as was the low risk of reoffending as disclosed by Simon Candlish's assessment and report.[12] It was also submitted that you have demonstrated that you would be well able to comply with court orders having been subject to stringent bail conditions for 14 months whilst awaiting the disposition of this matter.

[12]Psychological Assessment of Simon Candlish dated 8 March 2022 [85].

36The burden of imprisonment during the covid pandemic was also relied upon by your counsel. He emphasized that you are a first time offender who has never experienced the custodial environment.

37Finally, Mr de Vietri submitted that your prospects for rehabilitation were very good. He based this submission upon your personal history, the report of Mr Candlish, your plea of guilty and immediate admissions, the deep sense of shame and disgust at your own actions, your progress towards ensuring your own rehabilitation and the support you enjoy in the community in particular, from your wife, your sister and your daughter.

Sentencing considerations

38Mr Bradley, in cases such as this, general deterrence is undoubtedly the primary sentencing consideration for the reasons I have already stated. In relation to specific deterrence however, I agree with your counsel that it has little if any role to play. This is because I consider that you have been deterred as exemplified by your deep shame and remorse, the extra curial punishment you have experienced as a result of the breakdown of your marriage, estrangement from your son, loss of your career and the process of being arrested, your house searched, being taken into custody, interviewed and your understanding of the mandatory sentencing that would result should you offend again.

39In addition, I am required to take into account principles of parsimony and proportionality and I must ensure that you are adequately punished for your offending and that your offending is suitably denounced.

40Having weighed all these matters and having given consideration to the comparable cases supplied by the prosecution, I am satisfied that no other sentence is appropriate other than a term of imprisonment. As the charges to which you have pleaded guilty are Commonwealth sex offences, I am considering the imposition of a recognisance release order. I am bound to impose a term of imprisonment to be served immediately unless I am satisfied of the existence of exceptional circumstances.

41In relation to the scheduled offence, I take it into account as I am required to pursuant to s16BA[13]. However, in the circumstances of your case I do not propose to impose a harsher sentence as I consider that all your offending is best seen as a course of conduct that occurred over an 18-day period. The offending subject of the scheduled charge is essentially causing three child abuse material files to be sent to yourself within this period. The three charges and the schedule offence address different aspects of your offending and can all stand together however I consider there should be considerable concurrency as between the charges.

[13]Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) s 16BA.

42After careful consideration in your case I am satisfied that there are factors that when combined do amount to exceptional circumstances. The circumstances of how you came to offend as described above, the low number of images and videos involved and the short duration of your offending are important matters I have borne in mind in reaching my decision. Specifically, and in addition, I have had regard to the following;

First, your commitment, participation and progress in counselling. I consider this to be a true demonstration of your remorse and a very significant factor that will prevent you from re-offending thus providing long term protection of the community and the children who you have harmed.

Second, an immediate gaol term would not only interrupt this progress but would very likely mean that you would not get any treatment whilst in custody given the restrictions and harsher conditions in custody as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Third, your assessment as being a low risk of re-offending as assessed by Simon Candlish.

Fourth, your early plea of guilty and your plea during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fifth, your lack of prior convictions and your otherwise good character including a 38 year work history at high corporate levels, appreciating of course that less weight is usually given to these circumstances.

Sixth, the very extensive extra-curial punishment you have already experienced as detailed above.

Seventh, the very important step of 'coming out' to those around you. This shows an acceptance of responsibility for your offending and provides a further mechanism that will assist to prevent you from re-offending given the very likely vigilance of those around you.

Last, what I consider to be, not only your good, not only your very good, but your excellent prospects for rehabilitation.  I simply do not expect to see you back before a court or to reoffend in any manner whatsoever.

43Mr Bradley in relation to Charge 1 you are convicted and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, this sentence is to commence today. In respect to Charge 2 you are convicted and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, this sentence is to commence in two months' time. In respect to Charge 3 you are sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, this sentence is to commence in four months' time.

44It is my intention that a total period of 12 months' imprisonment be imposed and that you be released forthwith pursuant to s20(1)(b) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth)[14] upon entering a recognisance in the amount of $2,000 to be of good behaviour for a period of three years from today. I am of the view that exceptional circumstances exist pursuant to s20(1)(b)(ii)[15].

[14]Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) s 20(1)(b).

[15]Ibid s 20(1)(b)(ii).

45In respect of each of the charges you are to comply with the following further conditions pursuant to s20(1B) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth)[16] for a period of three years and these are:

·        You are to be under supervision of the Deputy Commissioner, Community Correctional Services and Sex Offender Management or his or her nominee;

·        You are to attend, undertake and complete the Sex Offender Program with Peter Hanley within a period of three years;

·        You are to report by telephone to Dandenong GSO within two working days of sentencing;

·        You are to report to and receive visits from a community corrections officer or officers;

·        You are to be subject to the supervision of a community corrections officer appointed in accordance with this order;

·        You are to notify an officer at the specified community corrections centre of any change of address or employment within two clear working days after the change;

·        You are not to travel interstate or overseas without the written permission of the probation office; and

·        You are to obey all reasonable directions of the community corrections officer.

[16]Ibid s 20(1B).

46Do you agree to those conditions?

47OFFENDER:  Yes, Your Honour.

48HER HONOUR:  Now all charges on the indictment are classified as Class 2 registrable offences under the Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 (Vic)[17]. Accordingly, I must order that you be required to comply with reporting obligations under this Act for life.

[17]Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 (Vic).

49Now there will be some material that is generated and  you will need to sign that, just confirming that you have received material about your obligations under that Act, and I should let you know it is onerous and it is serious and you will need to comply, but I have every confidence that you will be able to do that quite easily given your background and the way that you conduct yourself generally.

50All right, now is there anything further?

51MR CAMPBELL:  Is Your Honour minded under 6AAA to say what you would have imposed but for the plea of guilty?

52HER HONOUR: Yes, I should but for your plea of guilty, pursuant to s6AAA of the Sentencing Act[18] I would have imposed an immediate term of 18 months with a non-parole period of 12 months.

[18]Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic) s 6AAA.

53Thank you for that.  Anything else?

54MR CAMPBELL:  That is everything, Your Honour.  I did before the plea hearing, circulate a draft copy of the order to the court and to my friend.  Is Your Honour happy for us to update that order and then send it through to the court for final issuing and notification?  Or what needs to happen there?

55HER HONOUR:  My associate has drafted that I think, but I am happy for you, and I would like it if, you check it.

56MR de VIETRI:  Is it Your Honour's intention that Mr Bradley sign the recognisance physically and the acknowledgement of the SORA material?

57HER HONOUR:  Yes.

58MR de VIETRI:  I know the practices have somewhat changed over the last year or two with Covid but - - -

59HER HONOUR:  If it is all right to do that.

60MR de VIETRI:  - - - if we are back to the old ways it would usually be the case that your associate would bring him the paperwork and have him sign the recognisance as it is an undertaking that he signs.

61HER HONOUR:  Yes.

62MR de VIETRI:  And also signs the acknowledgement of the SORA paperwork.

63HER HONOUR:  Yes, sure.  I think we will do that.  My associate tells me that the SORA information will take about 15 to 20 minutes to sort out, so what I will do is I will stand down and then if you can check that the recognisance release order is correct, liaise with my staff, get that sorted and then when I come back we can sign them, he can sign the SORA and then the matter will be complete.

64MR de VIETRI:  Yes, Your Honour, thank you.

65HER HONOUR:  Great.

66(Short adjournment.)

67HER HONOUR:  All right, Mr Bradley, I understand that your counsel has explained both the SORA information as well as the recognisance release order.  Is that the case?

68OFFENDER:  Yes, Your Honour.

69HER HONOUR:  All right.  And you are happy to sign both of those?

70OFFENDER:  Yes, I am.

71HER HONOUR:  All right, I will have my associate Mr Best do that with you now.  My associate will run off some copies for the parties of those documents.

72Mr Bradley, stick with the counselling, which I know you will, I mean you promise that you will with the recognisance release order and I do not need to tell you that if you breach it, obviously what will happen, you already know that you have got the 12 months hanging over your head.  I just wish you every success with the counselling and I am quite confident that you will stay out of trouble, that we will not see you in a court again.  .

73OFFENDER:  You won't, Your Honour, and thank you.

74HER HONOUR:  All right, so I will stand down.

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