Six years and nine months’ jail for a trip to Bunnings and helping a mate crack open cocaine-filled car parts was “unreasonable and plainly unjust”, NSW appeal judges have ruled.
Biomedical scientist Klyde O’Shaughnessy will be eligible for release in November after his jail term was cut by 40 per cent this week.
He successfully argued his sentence for attempting to possess 5.4kg of cocaine in November 2017 was manifestly excessive, given he had no idea of the plan until he met with his friend the day they were both arrested in Sydney.
The friend, James Lindsay Willesee, arranged for the delivery of two drive shafts to Pymble Golf Club and then took them to his Freshwater home.
Not long after, police watched O’Shaughnessy arrive at …
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