CASE: R v Bredal [2024] NSWCCA 75

WARNING: Disturbing content of child sex offences

Daniel Christian Bredal (45 years old) was charged with a child sex offence, that offence being using a carriage service to groom a person under 16 years.

There was no 16-year-old child on the other end of the communications. It was in fact a fictious assumed online identify operated by the police.

Bredal was sentenced to 1 year and 7 months imprisonment. However, due to exceptional circumstances, he was released immediately on recognizance.

The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed against the sentence on the basis that it was manifestly inadequate - not the length of the sentence, but that it had been suspended.

The appeal was unsuccessful.