JV was originally charged with 72 counts of Destroy/ Damage Property in the Local Court. Chris managed to negotiate with the Prosecution to withdraw a large number of counts and JV ultimately only plead guilty to four counts.
It was relevant at sentencing that JV had previous similar type offending on his record and was in breach of a number of other Community-based Orders when he committed these offences. The Presiding Magistrate ultimately sentenced JV to a Community Corrections order for two of the sequences and to Intensive Correction Orders for the remaining two sequences. The Court also made an Order for Compensation in the amount of $14,454.04 (down from the initial $36,000.00 sought by the Prosecution).
This is a very pleasing result given the extent of the property damage involved.