CRIMINAL DIVISION
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MR JUSTICE IRWIN
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LEON LAM-CALLINAN |
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Friday 12 June 2009
MR JUSTICE COLLINS:
"I am very concerned that you show ...., it seems to me, little appreciation of the seriousness of your behaviour and accept little responsibility, if any, for what you did. Sometimes an offence or a series of offences can be more serious than may first appear. Even though there is no physical contact with the victim in the case of convictions for exposure, that causes serious alarm and distress, and it is clear that the victims who have written victim impact statements feel, and have felt (in some cases, continue to feel) distress as a result of your behaviour.I have said that I will make it clear again that there are number of aggravating factors in your case. You have been convicted of seven offences. They were committed over a period of 18 months. From the evidence of the victims which the jury clearly accepted, these were not opportunistic offences. They were not committed on the spur of the moment. You planned your approach to these women. You behaved in a way so as to gain their trust. You planned the use of out of the way rooms and the arrangement of screens in those rooms and you pestered them and then exposed yourself to these women.
In doing so, you abused the trust of colleagues and you behaved in a particularly inappropriate manner in a school setting."
We endorse all those observations. We are entirely satisfied that this series of offences were of their type at the higher end of seriousness.
"Having spent much time with Leon, I see a man who, although is not perfect, has been broken, humbled and changed for the good through the consequences of his wrongful actions of 2006-2007.... He has learnt much from these consequences and I believe he is a different man."
There was also a letter from the appellant's wife in which she indicated that she had forgiven him and that in her view he had learnt the error of his ways.
"We do not consider that this appellant can properly be regarded as a repeat offender. This was his first court appearance for any offence of this type."