Actual Bodily Harm
Actual Bodily Harm Assault occasioning actual bodily harm is a type of common assault and is considered as a serious offence. Under sec 59 of Crimes Act 1900 this offence attracts maximum penalty of 5 years. The penalty increases to 7 years if the offence is committed in the company of someone else. However, if the matter is dealt with in the local court where the maximum penalty is 2 years. Meaning Actual Bodily Harm means any injury which is calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim. The...
Police Brutality- Why do they get away with it?
Now and then, police have been under investigation for using extreme power to control a particular situation. Police brutality should be a crime. The incidence of Byron Bay teenager is a clear example of police brutality. Four police officers are under investigation for misconduct for beating a disoriented teenager. The CCTV footage of the four police officers beating the teenager was first aired on A Current Affair causing an outrage in local community. The 16-year-old schoolboy is seen with no clothes on being...
Loaded gun and cocaine seized from teen’s car
Police seized a loaded gun, cocaine, prescription drugs and a stash of cash from the car of a Sydney teenager. Drug possession and an illegal firearm are serious offences in NSW. The teenager was emerging from a side street, in western Sydney at about 7.40pm on Friday night, when he almost collided with a Strike Force Raptor police vehicle and was pulled over. The 19-year-old was walking away from his vehicle when the police stopped him and carried out a search of his vehicle. They found a Glock pistol, cocaine...
Man charged with luring a 14-year-old girl and has two teenage children of his own
A driving instructor from Westmead has been charged for having sexually explicit conversations online with a person believed to be a 14-year-old girl. This would be a charge of using a carriage service to procure a person under 16 years for sex. Police allege the man, aged 63, believed to be chatting to a young girl who actually was a detective from Strike Force Trawler. Strike Force Trawler is an ongoing investigation by the CIEU into the sexual abuse and exploitation of children through the internet. The...
What is Double Jeopardy-Everything you need to know
Double JeopardyThe Rules:Double jeopardy has been in existence for 800 years. The rule is that a person can not be tried more than once for the same offence, if that person has been acquitted the first time, even if new evidence has been found later, proving the person’s guilt. There are good reasons for this: a person should not be put through the ordeal and expense time and time again after being tried by the courts and subjected to the legal justice system.What brought the change:In 1990, the murders of three...
Two arrested over the stabbing of a teenager in Balmain
Jeremy Allen and Cassandra Ross have been arrested and facing charges for stabbing a teenager outside Woolworths in Balmain. The 16-year-old boy was leaving Woolworths with his 14-year-old brother when he was approached by the accused for a cigarette lighter. The accused and the victim had an altercation before the man stabbed the teenager in the abdomen and left with his partner. The accused is charged with grievous bodily harm with intent to murder, reckless grievous bodily harm, and reckless wounding. He...
Home Invasion in Sydney’s West
Two were stabbed and one shot during a violent home invasion overnight in Bringelly, south-west of Sydney. Home invasion is a serious offence. Just before 11.30pm on Monday a man and a woman armed with a knife and a gun forced their way into a house on Mersey Road in Bringelly. A fight broke between the occupants of the house and the intruders. A man was stabbed in his chest and stomach and a woman was stabbed in her hand and neck. A third person in the house was found uninjured. The police were called to a...
How to protect your child from pedophiles
Pedophiles – Who they are and how to identify onePedophiles are adults who are attracted to prepubescent children. Not all pedophiles are child molesters and vice versa. Pedophiles who are sexually attracted to children, may not act on it. On the other hand, child molesters may not be sexually attracted to children, they do it because they suffer from ‘pedophilia’ a psychiatric disorder. The attraction is generally towards children under the age of 13. A person should be 16 years or above and at least 5 years...
Is Prison Punishment Enough?
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside it’s jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats it highest citizens but its lowest ones”. Prison is tough. There is no doubt about it. Once through those doors, it is clear that inmates are exposed to a myriad of physical and psychological burdens. The quote above by Nelson Mandela perfectly reflects the oppressive nature of our Criminal Justice System and offers a tiny glimpse of the realities of prison. One of the main purposes of...
How reliable is forensic evidence?
How reliable is forensic evidence?It is called ‘The CSI Effect’ and it is playing a vital role on the reliability of forensic evidence. For years crime serials have shown forensic evidence as a key player in solving grim murders or crimes. It has raised the bar of reliance by jurors and resulted in unrealistic expectations. How reliable is forensic evidence? Unfortunately, reality is not that simple as shown on TV. Forensic evidence is much more complex and often inconclusive. It is a surprising truth that all...
Is jail term the best punishment for pedophiles
Pedophilia – Is jail term the best punishmentPedophiles commit crimes against the most vulnerable in our society, our children. The NSW government introduced new tougher laws for child sex offenders. According to new legislation, these offenders will face life imprisonment, as against the old rule of 25 years. Is it the best option? Studies say that most, if not all, of the child sex offenders have been victims of abuse themselves at their young age. Not all pedophiles are child sex offenders. There can be some...
Melbourne fake breath test – how much did it cost us?
The revelation of Melbourne police faking breath test brought an outrage in public. Melbourne police falsified 258,463 PBT’s over the period of five years. The Traffic Accident Commission (TAC) has frozen their funding to Victoria police for the amount of $4 million used for roadside breath tests. But how much actually has it cost us? The consequences have simply been ignored. These fraudulent acts of the police have given a passage for the ones actually committing the crime of driving, under the influence of...
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