10 The statement of the facts of the offences by the sentencing judge in his remarks on sentence was based on a statement of facts admitted without objection in the proceedings on sentence and was not the subject of any criticism upon the hearing of this application. All of the offences were committed on the same day, being 11 January 2004. His Honour's statement of the facts of the offences was:-
"…with respect to count 1, that on the morning of 11 January 2004, the offender was in the company of a Michael Rogan at the suburb of Fairy Meadow. At about 8.15 am he went to a tavern where Rogan was employed as a contract cleaner. That tavern overlooks a car park attached to a Woolworths supermarket store. The offender used his air rifle to shoot at magpies in the rear garden of the tavern. After he had shot a magpie, Rogan also used the air rifle to shoot the magpie.
Nancy Frazer, aged sixty years, who was in the company of her eighty year old mother was in the Woolworths car park loading groceries into the boot of her car. Mrs Frazer heard a loud thud and felt a sharp pain to the back of her arm. She told her mother she had been shot. Mrs Frazer then sought medical attention and x-rays were taken. There was no pellet found on the x-ray and no exit wound. Her treating doctor was of the opinion that her injury was consistent with a graze by a projectile. Mrs Frazer attended the Wollongong Police Station and reported the matter. The facts state that there is no evidence that the offender deliberately shot at or in the direction of Mrs Frazer.
Count 2. On 11 January 2004, at 4.55 pm, the victim Mary Khoder, aged sixty-five years was walking in Railway Parade, Fairfield with the assistance of a walker and felt a sharp pain in her right shoulder. The victim was treated by her local doctor and a small air rifle pellet was removed from her shoulder area. Police were notified.
Count 3. On 11 January 2004 at 5.25 pm, Thanh Vuong aged thirty-nine years, was shot in the lower back region whilst at the corner of Peel and Canley Vale Road, Canley Valle. A small metallic object was located in his shirt after the shooting.
Count 4. Between 5.30 pm and 6 pm on the same day the victim Consuelo De-Leon, aged fifty-one years, was walking in the Fairfield Forum approaching her motor vehicle when she felt a pain to the rear of her head with blood flowing freely from the injury. The victim was conveyed to Fairfield Hospital and a small air rifle projectile was surgically removed. The victim saw a white van near her when she was shot.
Count 5. At 5.45 pm the victim Bradley Wright, aged fifteen years was walking in Canley Vale Road and heard a loud noise similar to a firearm discharging and immediately felt pain to his chest area. The victim was conveyed to hospital and an air rifle pellet was recovered from his wound.
Count 6. At 6 pm or shortly thereafter, the victim Sam Ly, aged fifty years, was standing on the footpath outside a restaurant in The Boulevard, Fairfield when he felt a sharp pain to his chest area. He was taken to Fairfield Heights Medical Centre and later transported to Fairfield Hospital for treatment for a penetrating wound to his chest, the result of being shot by an air rifle projectile.
Count 7. Around 6 pm on the same day, the victim David Chalabi, aged eleven years, was riding his bicycle in Barbara Street, Fairfield when he heard a loud noise similar to a cap gun discharging. The victim then saw blood flowing from his left arm. The victim looked up and saw a white van take off at speed away from the area. The victim was admitted to Liverpool Hospital where a small projectile was identified as being lodged in his hand. Because of the proximity of the pellet to the nerves in the hand it was not possible to remove the pellet without the risk of further nerve damage.
Count 8. At 6.45 pm, the victim Andre Khoury, aged fifty-four years was walking in Sackville Street, Fairfield and felt a sharp pain to his elbow area which bled. He was taken to the Spencer Street Medical Centre, Fairfield. A small projectile was removed from his right elbow area.
Count 9. On the same day, between 6.30 pm and 7 pm, the victim Thi Thu Pham, fifty-one years old, parked her car in the Fairfield car park. She commenced walking towards the shopping centre and felt a sharp pain to her upper left chest area. She noticed the area was bleeding and a small metal object was stuck to the outside of her clothing, consistent with an air rifle pellet. The victim continued walking towards the front entrance of the Fairfield Forum and noticed a white van with a male driver parked near this entrance. The victim attended her local doctor the following day and was treated for her injury.
Count 10. On the same day, Riva Yaco, aged seventeen years, was walking along Harris Street, Fairfield in the company of a friend when he felt a sharp pain to his chest. He was bleeding from a wound to his chest. He went home where he informed his parents what had happened. Following publicity regarding the other shooting incidents, the victim sought medical attention on 16 January 2004, but there was no evidence of a penetrating injury.
Count 11. On the same day at 5.15 pm, Irena Korunoska, was driving her father's motor vehicle in an easterly direction along Canley Vale Road Canley Heights, when she heard a loud bang on the driver's side of the car. She stopped the car and noticed a dent above the rear passenger door on the driver's side consistent with being struck with an air rifle.
Count 12. Relates to an air rifle that was found in the possession of the offender. The offender admitted to police that he purchased it for fifty dollars at the hotel in Queensland in December in 2003".
11 As a result of the information received by police, the van the applicant was driving was stopped. Police searched the van and found a packet of air rifle pellets. In the rear part of the van there was a sofa facing the side window, which could be opened. After the van was stopped and searched, the applicant was arrested.