How long must we wait before some form of ‘judicial culpability’ laws are finally enacted?
After all, all Australian states have so-called ‘industrial manslaughter’ laws, where bosses can be jailed for a workplace death, even if they were unaware of any safety breaches involved. So, why not extend the same notion of criminal responsibility to judges, bureaucrats and politicians?
For instance, if a judge decides to release a violent and/or sex offender on bail and the person commits even more crimes – why shouldn’t the judge be held at least partly responsible?
After all, a judge facing the real prospect of having to share a cell with a violent paedophile rapist might not be so keen on setting him free on bail so that he can go on to murder an innocent man.
The Darwin teenager who allegedly stabbed to death an elderly supermarket owner on Wednesday night was on bail at the time of the incident for a long list of violent offences including aggravated assault and rape.
The 18 year old – who appeared in the NT Supreme Court just last week – has been arrested for allegedly killing Canadian-born Linford Feick, 71, in the Friendly Grocer Nightcliff Supermarket after he was caught stealing items from the store.
Just any old “Darwin teenager”, of no particular description, of course.
‘Long list’ doesn’t begin to describe this thug’s rap sheet when he was bailed on two counts of aggravated assault, three counts of rape, depriving a person of their personal liberty, sexual intercourse with a child under 16, assaulting and resisting police and spitting on an officer or emergency worker. He was also banned from the Darwin CBD.
Did the judge who bailed him seriously think he wasn’t a risk for re-offending? Pull the other one. So, why shouldn’t m’lud be held accountable for the entirely foreseeable consequence of his or her decision to grant bail?
Especially in light of the Northern Territory’s “Declan’s Law”, named for bottleshop worker Declan Laverty, who was murdered in 2023 by yet another violent Aboriginal teenage thug who was on bail for a string of violent crimes.
Declan’s Law was one of the first pieces of legislation to be passed by the Country Liberal Party when they took over as government from NT Labor last year, which legislated a presumption against bail for youth and adult serious violent offenders, regardless of whether a weapon was involved in alleged offending.
Yet the judges who set these savages free are never held accountable.
Nor are the bureaucrats who let scum like this into the country and set them loose on Australian communities.
An Afghan refugee is behind bars after facing court twice over an alleged sexual assault spree which began less than a week after he arrived in Mildura, Victoria.
Abdul Qayum Nawabi, 44, landed in Australia on a humanitarian visa on March 26, but just days later faced court accused of kissing and groping a supermarket worker, inappropriately kissing a two-year-old girl, and doing the same to a childcare worker.
You’ll never guess what happened next!
He appeared in court on April 4 where a magistrate granted him bail despite the serious charges because he had the support of taxpayer-funded refugee settlement agency AMES Australia and a static address.
No doubt to your utter astonishment, good readers, he went right back to his rapey, pedo ways.
Just days later he allegedly sexually assaulted another woman.
The Mildura Magistrates’ Court last week heard that Nawabi was at a medical appointment when he allegedly grabbed the hand of the 24-year-old woman treating him and began kissing her arm up towards her shoulder, Sunraysia Daily reported.
Police prosecutor Leading Senior Constable Kristen Simm told the court the woman managed to pull her hand away and said the man’s alleged behaviour left her feeling “disgusted”.
She further testified that Nawabi allegedly became aggressive during a police interview, which had to be conducted via interpreter as he does not speak English.
In a stunning turn of events, this time a magistrate refused bail. To his credit, m’lud wasn’t having any of the defence lawyer’s bullshit, either.
Defence counsel Jamie McConnachie told the court the prosecution was required to prove that the man’s touching and kissing was sexual in nature, and not a “sign of gratitude”, and asked for bail with conditions preventing him from approaching “the types of people that it seems to be happening to”.
Magistrate Patrick Southey responded “Women? They make up half the population” […]
He refused Nawabi bail, saying the Afghan national posed an unacceptable risk to the public that no conditions could alleviate.
So, why is he still in the country?
And why aren’t the people responsible for turning him loose on the women and little girls of Mildura not being held accountable?
Judicial and bureaucratic culpability laws are desperately needed.
