Australia, April 13 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 14:
1. DAVIES J: I agree with Yehia J.
2. LONERGAN J: I agree with Yehia J.
3. YEHIA J: RG ("the applicant") pleaded guilty to 14 sexual assault offences committed against two of his biological daughters, RG and JG, when they were aged 8 or 9 and 10 or 11 years old respectively, and one offence of choking RG. Some of the offences were committed either in company with, or in the presence of the victims' biological mother, BG. The offending was rightly characterised by the applicant's counsel at first instance as being "heinous, depraved and appalling". Such characterisation is not resiled from by counsel on the appeal and was ...