Hardly a day seems to go by without another case in point for my campaign to make soft-touch, tilty-headed, lefty judges and bureaucrats finally face serious consequences for their virtue-signalling idiocy. If a bartender serves an obviously inebriated patron who goes on to commit a crime while drunk, the bartender can be held responsible. If a boss, even unknowingly, runs an unsafe worksite that kills a worker, they can go to jail. But judges are airily immune from consequences.
And when the worst criminals know they can always rely on a soft-touch judge or parole officer to set them free after a token sentence, if any, to continue to perpetrate horrors on the innocent.
While the rest of us are expected to stand by in mute, helpless, outrage.
A notorious rapist went on a violent two-day crime spree that included choking a woman in Albert Park while he was supposed to be under close supervision in the community.
Despite a more than 15-year record of committing violent crimes, convictions for rape and a history of absconding, Theo Briggs was allowed to live in a high-end drug and alcohol treatment centre with only GPS and alcohol-use tracking bracelets to prevent a potentially dangerous relapse.
This scumbag just one of dozens of known sex offenders who are free to commit more violent sex crimes while supposedly ‘under supervision’ by state government authorities. But the true extent of their unfettered reign of horror is kept carefully hidden from the public by laws that explicitly protect offenders, supposedly to increase their prospects of rehabilitation.
Even when the authorities responsible for turning them loose on an unsuspecting public know full well they have no prospect of rehabilitation. In Briggs’s case, lawyers argued that his crimes should be kept secret because of “the impact of any publication on his welfare and safety in prison and the hurt it would cause to his family and friends”.
To quote ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan, “Well, I’m all broken up about that man’s rights”.
Briggs was placed on an order by a County Court judge in 2015 after he had repeatedly committed sex-based and violent crimes that led authorities to fear he would pose a serious risk to the public after he was released from prison, according to court records from prior to 2025.
So, why was he released?
In 2009, Briggs forced entry to a home through a window, and while carrying a knife, threatened a woman with death before sexually assaulting her multiple times while her children slept in the next room.
Just over two years later, less than a week after being released on parole for that crime, Briggs broke into another woman’s home while she slept and robbed her at knifepoint. He entered the house knowing someone was home and cut the phone line.
And yet, he was released again on so-called ‘supervision orders’, which amounted to nine-tenths of fuck-all when it came to protecting the public.
Briggs racked up several dozen convictions for violating the terms of his order and a string of other crimes, including absconding from the facility in 2016, committing an assault, drug possession, accessing violent pornographic websites, making threats to kill, and possessing a firearm. A later attempt to disable his tracking devices led to another jail sentence.
Three guesses what happened next.
Then, in mid-April 2024, he was allowed to move into the community, placed in a high-end substance abuse treatment centre in inner-city Melbourne. He was required to wear a GPS tracker and alcohol use detection device. The decision was approved by the PSA.
The rehab centre, which was located in a quiet residential area, offered services such as counselling, yoga and breath work. It lists no specialist services for dealing with sex offenders.
Within days, Briggs tested positive for methamphetamine. He would return two more positive drug tests before he was arrested and then bailed to Corella Place. Three more positive tests followed.
Did they jail him then? You know the answer already.
The PSA then decided to place Briggs back in the community. On November 30 last year, he removed his electronic tracking devices and disappeared. Over the next 36 hours, Briggs committed two home invasions, stole a car, kidnapped an Uber driver at knifepoint and attacked a woman in a park.
Even while pontificating about the ‘chilling and terrifying ordeal’ Briggs inflicted on an innocent woman and his ‘bleak’ prospects for rehabilitation, the judge sentenced him to a reduced sentence. At the same time, authorities imposed an information blackout about his reign of terror while under ‘supervision’.
Well, here’s a thought, Your Honour: if he commits more crimes on parole, you share his next sentence – and his cell. Let’s see how quick you are to give him a reduced sentence, then. Ditto for the faceless bureaucrats who try and hide all this from the public.
The limited court records available show some of these mystery cases involve known sex offenders under supervision being charged with committing assault, entering a private place without permission, and making and transmitting child abuse material. One had been charged with violating his supervision order on 22 occasions.
Instead of cracking down on these scum, the Post Sentence Authority is resorting to idiotic wokeness instead.
The agency’s 2024–25 annual report to parliament made no mention of the incident involving Briggs, which is probably the worst failure of the monitoring system in the PSA’s history.
The report did note the agency had become more “inclusive” by changing its official terminology from “offenders” to “people on orders”, which “reflects a deep and pervasive culture of respect within the Authority for the inherent human dignity of the people for whom we are responsible”.
They obviously don’t give a rat’s arse about the inherent human dignity for the victims of these monsters.
