Wyong: Cherine Wilson, 30, Tori Nunn, 24, sentenced over nine-month crime wave of shoplifting, fraud and stolen cars

A couple charged over a nine-month “crime spree” could not be more different with one sliding into trouble and the other diving into the “deep end”, a court has heard at their sentencing.

Tori Nunn and Cherine Wilson were on the run from Tuggerah Lakes Police until their arrest on September 29, 2022. Picture: supplied

Two women, who’s ‘wanted’ mugshots went viral when they were posted by police on social media, have faced a sentencing hearing after pleading guilty to a nine-month “crime wave” of shoplifting, fraud, assault and being passengers in not one but two high-speed pursuits.

Tori Nunn, 24, and her former partner Cherine Wilson, 30, both of Wyong, appeared via video link at Wyong Local Court on Thursday.

Their solicitor, Legal Aid lawyer Robert Acheson, told the court the women had very different paths which led them before the court.

He said Nunn had almost no criminal history, despite ongoing drug use since she was 17, before embarking on a “crime spree” in January which saw her become a “busy and prolific offender”.

Wilson and Nunn faced Wyong Local Court on Thursday. (File image)

He said she “gave no clue in her early years this pattern of offending would emerge” and it “came out of nowhere”.

Mr Acheson said unlike most offenders who descend into criminality slowly — and were afforded opportunities by the courts to turn their lives around as they went — Nunn jumped into the “crime pool at the deep end”.

Conversely, her older partner Wilson — who the court heard Nunn was no longer in an intimate relationship with — followed in her parents into a life of “ice addiction”.

“This is a lady who took the more traditional descent into criminal offending,” Mr Acheson said.

“And who was given chance after chance after chance.”

He told the court Wilson had been on a revolving door in and out of prison every year since 2015 but summed up her own private “horror story” in a letter to court in which she stated “both my parents were ice addicts and I ended up just like them”.

Cherine Wilson said both her parents were ice addicts and she followed in their footsteps.

Several sets of agreed facts states the pair came to police attention in January when Nunn stole a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey form Liquorland Budgewoi and was captured driving while suspended to BCF at Tuggerah where she tried to pry a roller door open before stealing a stand up paddle board.

On June 27 the pair got into a fight with a second cousin of Nunn’s at Coles Killarney Vale where they punched her and another man before being thrown out by security.

A month later on July 29 they were both charged with being passengers in a black Mitsubishi Lancer with stolen plates, which led police on a pursuit through Bateau Bay.

The pursuit ended when the Lancer crossed onto the wrong side of the road and collided heavily with a stationary police vehicle.

Tori Nunn, 24, has pleaded guilty to many shoplifting and fraud offences. Picture: NSW Police

The facts state Nunn and Wilson got out of the car and started running but were arrested.

They were picked up again on August 4 when they were passengers in another car involved in a police pursuit and told officers they had been diagnosed the day before with Covid.

Wilson said she had the text message on her phone to prove it.

The pair were again out on bail when they filled up a white Nissan Navara at Ampol Kariong and the Metro Petroleum at Berkeley Vale on separate occasions in September.

Tori Nunn pleaded guilty to failing to pay at the Metro service station at Berkeley Vale where she and Cherine Wilson turned up in a stolen Nissan Navara. Picture: Google

The vehicle had been reported stolen after it was hired from U-Haul Australia at Blacktown and not returned on August 12.

Nunn and Wilson also pleaded guilty to shoplifting $765 worth of Nike and Adidas clothing from Rebel at West Gosford in July and $718.71 worth of designer clothing brands such as Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein from Costco at Boolaroo in September.

Wilson was sentenced to 20 months jail with 10 months non-parole.

Nunn was sentenced to a two-year intensive corrections order (ICO) with the condition that she perform 200 hours of community service work and abstain from illicit drugs.