A former modelling entrepreneur and actual property agent from Sydney’s prosperous northern seashores has been jailed for a string of crimes, together with bizarrely possessing one other individual’s ID with an intent to commit fraud.
Monique Agostino’s prolonged prison file and troubled previous was aired in court docket earlier than she was as soon as once more sentenced to jail, practically three years after she was despatched to NSW’s hardest ladies’s jail.
Police had put a whopping 15 warrants out for the 28-year-old’s arrest previously 4 years, Sutherland Native Court docket heard.
She was sentenced on Thursday to 9 months imprisonment with a five-month non-parole interval after pleading responsible to possessing ID to commit an indictable offence — being fraud, larceny, drug possession, drug-driving, items in custody suspected of being stolen and driving an unregistered, uninsured automobile whereas disqualified.
The court docket heard her spiral into drug use worsened when she misplaced her licence and will now not work as an actual property agent.
Her Authorized Support lawyer instructed the court docket Agostino had “a great deal of potential” and was learning a web-based e-commerce course.
“She’s comparatively younger… though she’s clocked up a whole lot of miles in life in some ways,” he mentioned of the mum-of-one.
“In the event you converse to her straight, you’d be impressed. She’s an clever particular person who has used her skills for prison (causes) as a substitute of constructive causes… that’s to not say it’ll all the time be that means.”
Studying from a psychological report, Justice of the Peace Hugh Donnelly mentioned Agostino was utilizing amphetamines weekly up till her arrest and mentioned Authorized Support’s proposed situations for a community-based sentence wouldn’t deal with her drug downside.
“Greater than 10 warrants have been executed since 2019,” Justice of the Peace Donnelly mentioned, including she had a file of not displaying as much as court docket.
“She is a persistent offender relating to driving whereas disqualified — it’s at the least the third time she’s come to court docket for that”.
Whereas the Authorized Support lawyer admitted her poor file confirmed a “decided thumbing of the nostril on the regulation,” he mentioned “we’re all a piece in progress”.
Showing by way of audio-visual hyperlink, Agostino pleaded with the court docket to let her “have some phrases,” however Justice of the Peace Donnelly reminded her of her authorized illustration earlier than sentencing her to full-time custody.
The previous newbie mannequin — whose hair was now dip-dyed purple — put her head in her arms as she was sentenced.
In September 2020, Agostino was handed a two-year sentence on the infamous Silverwater Ladies’s Correctional Centre, with a minimal of 18 months.
She’d pleaded responsible to a sequence of weird masked robberies, drug offences, shoplifting and having a knife in a Goal retailer.
Her life started spiralling uncontrolled in 2018, when the then-22-year-old drove a number of teenage male youths to burglaries they dedicated on Sydney’s north shore.
Agostino and the boys donned black masks and prised open, or tried to jemmy, doorways utilizing a chisel.
Caught on CCTV, Agostino broke into the Pound of Pizza restaurant at Killarney Heights early on November 6, 2018.
She later appealed the sentence’s severity and was launched on bail in early 2020.
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