Case-subject index
Court reports mentioning Laurence Bryan
This page indexes source-named court-report mentions. Legal stage and outcome are shown separately for each report.
2019-10-25
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Bryan has 132 previous convictions, including a five and a half year sentence with the final 18 months suspended imposed in 2014 for previous robberies. At that time in 2017, she told Bryan that she was not making any promises but it appeared that four years in prison had not served him or the community well. "You were back to square one within a number of weeks," Judge Greally said, "so it is clear some alternative to a sentence, even with a suspended period, will be needed to break the cycle." Judge Greally today said these had been extremely serious robberies committed by Bryan in the throes of an extremely destructive addiction to crack cocaine and heroin.; Judge Melanie Greally initially heard evidence in this case in 2017 and had adjourned it to allow the residential drug treatment program to be completed.
2017-02-09
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Bryan has 132 previous convictions, including a five and a half year sentence with the final 18 months suspended imposed by Judge Mary Ellen Ring in 2014 for previous robberies. She told Bryan that she was not making any promises but it appeared that four years in prison had not served him or the community well. "You were back to square one within a number of weeks," Judge Greally said "so it is clear some alternative to a sentence, even with a suspended period, will be needed to break the cycle." Sarah Jane O'Callaghan BL, defending, said her client had been in a "protective environment" while in prison and had been drug free on his release.; Today Judge Melanie Greally revoked the 18-month suspended portion of the previous sentence and adjourned sentencing on the new offences until October 2018.