STATE OF TASMANIA v CHERYL JANE HOLTON 20 NOVEMBER 2020
COMMENTS ON PASSING SENTENCE BLOW CJ
You have pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving stolen property. You were at home one day in November of last year when people that you knew brought stolen property onto the premises. The property included a van valued at $20,000, and various tools and other materials. The material had come from two storage units that had been burgled. The people left the stolen property on your premises, and in some respects you exercised control over it, in that you touched things and you tried to move the vehicle. What you should have done was told the people that you were not having it on your premises, and that if they left it there you would be calling the police. And if you had done that, they would have taken it away, I presume, and the owners would not have got any of it back. But they did because the police happened to come around for other reasons, and find the stolen goods, and you got charged.
You have a long record of convictions. They are not convictions of dishonesty. I do not think this deserves any sort of heavy penalty. I record a conviction.