McKellar man sentenced for 'opportunistic crime'

Magistrates love to defend their reluctance to gaol offenders by citing the enormous expense of housing a prisoner for 1 year (approx $70 000). I am willing to bet that they cost the community many MANY times more than that when they are out on the street stealing cars and leaving syringes in parks etc.

As for Higgins, he would have given Martin Bryant 6 months good behaviour…..

I mentioned this to a couple of friends of mine and to my “surprise” they asked if the judge was Chief Justice Terence Higgins.

hairy nosed wombat said :

Can anyone explain this to me. Why did we need to build a gaol, if our courts will not give Gaol time in their sentence??

It will be filled with drivers that were doing 70 in the 60 zone.

HNW, the Monaro Motel is designed to prove beyond doubt to any poor misbegotten fool who accidentally commits a crime that’s just a little too naughty to get away with a wrist slap, that we here in the ACT are still the nicest people in the whole wide world, and even if there is no way possible to excuse your behaviour and we have to incarcerate you – not by choice of course – we will still make sure that your rights are not trampled on, especially your right to watch tv on really good screens.

Yeah, shoot-outs all the time in Canberra, shauno. You thought Compton was bad…

I have an idea, why doesn’t everyone on this site move to Singapore.

As ive said before it certainly encourages crime in the ACT. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if some of the armed robberies in Canberra such as the Mawson shoot out with Chubb and a few others is simply because your almost certain to get less or no jail time if convicted in the ACT.

The crim was no doubt remorseful for his actions.

Can anyone explain this to me. Why did we need to build a gaol, if our courts will not give Gaol time in their sentence??

Or does the ACT government expect it to be filled with prisoners from NSW?

No prizes for guessing who was on tne bench (before checking the news report)