As Good Oil readers will undoubtedly be aware, courts now apply ridiculous ‘sentencing discounts’ based, not on the crime committed, but on the offender’s background. If you can spin a good enough sob story to a tilty-headed judge, it’s practically a Get Out of Jail Free card. If you’ve got the ‘right’ skin colour, well… your victim should just be thankful the judge doesn’t throw them in the slammer.
The latest egregious example of vicious thugs playing the Race Card to a sympathetic judge comes from Adelaide.
Twin teenagers who stomped on a stranger 60 times in a vicious attack in Adelaide, leaving him disabled, have been jailed for less than three years after a judge took their aboriginality into account.
Astonishingly, the judge excused their savagery, on account of their granny had died.
Both KS and TS told a sentencing conference that they carried out the attack due to “distress and anger” over the recent death of their grandmother, and TS said that he hoped the victim “might one day understand the personal difficulties [he was] experiencing at the time”, the judge told the court.
Somehow, I think the victim will be too busy trying to learn how to eat through a straw to give a rat’s arse about the ‘personal difficulties’ of some Aboriginal thugs.
It’s not as if it was just a spur-of-the-moment outbreak of savagery, either. The pair hunted down their victim before wreaking astonishing violence.
CCTV footage obtained by the Advertiser shows the twins following their victim down an alley outside the Salvation Army Sobering Centre at Whitmore Square on April 24, 2025, before knocking him to the ground and punching, kicking and stomping on him dozens of times.
Call me weird, but when my granny died when I was a teenager, my first response wasn’t to go hunting for some random stranger to beat the shit out of.
Judge Nick Alexandrides noted in sentencing that the victim’s ear was almost severed in the attack, and that the man suffered a very severe traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic amnesia, and will experience significant and permanent cognitive impairment.
A victim impact statement provided by the man’s mother stated that her son’s life had “changed forever” as a result of the attack, and that he “had to learn to walk and talk again, due to the injuries sustained, and he is now unable to live independently”.
Look on the bright side: with all that ‘personal difficulty’ now inflicted on their victim, he could practically commit mass murder and get let off with a warning. But, oh, wait – he’s not Aboriginal. Sorry, whitey: no sentence reduction for you.
The court heard that KS was from a background of “significant disadvantage”, had been referred to NDIS support, suffered from prenatal alcohol exposure, and tested in the lowest one per cent for oral language functioning and the lowest four per cent for overall intellectual functioning […]
The court heard TS also experienced “significant childhood adversity including exposure to domestic violence, physical abuse, homelessness, parental illicit substance abuse and neglect”, and had been diagnosed with an intellectual disability due to his “extremely low” overall cognitive functioning.
TS also abused alcohol and cannabis from a young age, and the court heard he claimed he was “easily triggered, and can respond with anger when [he] perceive[s] others to be unkind or threatening”.
It sounds very much as if the pair of them actually belong somewhere they can’t inflict vicious attacks on strangers for no real reason.
The twins, now 18 and anonymised as KS and TS by the court, both pleaded guilty to “aggravated causing serious harm with intent to cause serious harm”, an offence that carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison, but were given non-parole periods of just two years and six months each.
Their sentence were backdated to April 24, 2025, meaning that they’ll in fact serve little more than a year for their brutal crime.
Just think: if they’d only ‘transitioned’ or converted to Islam, they’d not only have been let off completely, but the judge would have awarded them a taxpayer-funded stipend.
