Again and again, Australian judges keep on making my case for Judicial Responsibility laws. This one, though, really takes the cake: imagine a judge not even bothering to sentence a shockingly violent teenage refugee thug to something as feather-light as a ‘community order’, simply because ‘he won’t show up anyway’.
Yes, really.
One of the state’s worst youth offenders has been set loose on Victoria’s streets without further supervision after a court deemed he wouldn’t comply anyway.
Releasing the notorious teen thug, Magistrate Gail Hubble said the 419 days he had spent in detention awaiting sentencing was “extraordinary” – despite the fact that he had been charged with more than 400 offences and breached bail dozens of times.
Throwing her hands up, she said: “He’s been unable to comply with bail or satisfactorily complete a community order … I don’t think he can do a community order at this point.”
Well, here’s an idea: how about he can do jail time, instead? Just spitballing here, of course. But if someone has a rap sheet 400 charges long and dozens of bail breaches, put him away.
And I mean all the way away. Overseas away. If this ‘refugee’ rewards this country’s generosity with a never-ending string of violent crimes: deport him. End of story. Send his family packing with him, given that they clearly don’t give a rat’s arse about what their darling offspring is up to.
The boy, on a refugee visa, made front page headlines in the Herald Sun when it emerged he had almost 400 charges struck out due to his age and had been bailed more than 50 times.
He has repeatedly breached court orders, going on to commit terrifying crime sprees including home invasions, car thefts and robberies within days of his release.
It is understood he first came to police attention when he was just 11 years old.
But, no: for hand-wringing judges, all that matters is sticking to the Multicult mantra, no matter what.
Police had pushed for detention, followed by his release on a Youth Attendance Order where he would continue to be supervised by youth justice and undergo behaviour change programs […]
But Ms Hubble released him on time served, saying the 419 days the boy had spent in detention awaiting the outcome of these matters was “extraordinary” for someone his age.
“Surely that’s enough?,” she said. “It’s an astoundingly long period.”
Clearly, it isn’t.
Even the bloodsucking lawyers were astonished at this shocking display of judicial irresponsibility.
Her decision shocked even the 15-year-old’s lawyer, and the prosecution who were calling for the thug to complete a community-based order on his release, including behaviour change programs […]
As the boy fronted court this month for sentencing on his latest offending, and for breaches of community orders, his lawyer, Vincent Vuu, was surprised when Ms Hubble indicated she was looking at a punishment that would see his client’s immediate release.
“I wasn’t expecting that,” Mr Vuu said.
Make no mistake: Hubble bears as much responsibility for this foreign thug’s reign of terror as any employer whose lax approach to safety kills one of their workers. “I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve given him bail,” she says. The difference is that the boss can be jailed, the judge can’t.
Here’s another idea: make the judge put him up in a spare room at her no-doubt luxurious home.
Then we’ll see how eager she is to bail him out again.
