In another one to make the case for judicial responsibility laws, a violent African rapist and career criminal is set to be released after serving just seven years for the brutal rape of an elderly woman. This, despite the judge who okayed his release admitting that he poses “unacceptable risk of committing another serious offence”.
Despite the media describing him as a “Launceston man”, Christo Brown is in fact a Sudanese immigrant, which begs the question of why he is even being released into Australian communities that will be forever at risk from this predator.
“The safety of the community must be the paramount consideration when determining whether or not to make an order,” the judge wrote in his reasons for decision.
To be fair, the judge has little choice but to parole him within the too-light sentence already handed down. But that doesn’t mean he should be allowed to remain in Australia: why not deport him and guarantee that he won’t prey on innocent Australians again?
Because this creep is absolutely a remorseless predator.
Christo Brown pleaded not guilty to rape, aggravated burglary and demanding property with the intent to menace or steal, but was found guilty on all counts by a Launceston jury in 2018.
Justice Robert Pearce sentenced him to eight years’ imprisonment, with a possibility of parole after four years.
He was also sentenced for an unrelated January 2015 aggravated burglary incident.
Not to mention four counts of assault. At his trial, prosecutors showed that Brown had a ‘tendency’ to sexually assault vulnerable women in their beds. In one case, a Queensland woman testified that in July 2016 Brown got into her bed while she was sleeping and indecently assaulted her.
So, why such a light sentence?
And why is he being allowed to remain in Australia, given the judge’s own admission:
[Chief Justice Chris Shanahan] drew attention to a report on Brown’s prison behaviour, which included a “disregard for rules and a tendency to intimidate and make inappropriate advances towards female staff”.
“Therefore Mr Brown will require a high level of intervention and risk management in the community if he is to be released on parole,” Shanahan said.
Chief Justice Shanahan determined that a high-risk offender order was necessary as Brown posed “an unacceptable risk of committing another serious offence”.
In other words, Australian taxpayers are going to fork out hundreds of thousands, if not millions, just to try and keep themselves safe from someone who shouldn’t even be here in the first place.
Unsurprisingly, furious Tasmanian women have launched a petition, demanding that Brown be deported back to Sudan.
