Crook v R [2026] NSWCCA 146

Crook v R [2026] NSWCCA 146. The New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal considered an aggregate sentence of six years and four months for fourteen offences, including two counts of using an offensive weapon to prevent lawful apprehension committed hours apart. The key issue was whether the sentencing judge had impermissibly increased the objective seriousness of the second count because Crook had committed the first earlier that day. The Court found this amounted to double punishment and was a material error requiring resentencing. On resentencing, it found the second offence remained at the more serious end and no lower sentence was warranted. Leave was granted, but the appeal was dismissed.