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Pre-sentencing today.

Sentencing on Nov 8.

Lots more horrific details in today's article than the brief one a year ago.


'Mr Townsend blamed his client’s night work for the re-offending, saying it had isolated him from everyone.'
 
Good on the parents for this drug network infiltration in WA's Western Suburbs.

Probably the same happening all over the country (the illegal drugs networks involving school-kids that is).


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Maybe the first ever case in Australia of someone being found not guilty of child sex offences because they were probably suffering from a sleep disorder called 'sexsomnia'. (otherwise know as parasomnia). See today's DM article far below.

Interestingly, there's a UK case (victim McCrossen-Nethercott) where the Crown Prosecution (CPS) claimed that the victim could have had an episode of a rare sleep condition called sexsomnia, after waking up to discover she was half-naked, and with the sense that she had been r*ped while she slept.

Based on this, the UK CPS dropped the women's rape case before the scheduled trial, and the defendant was acquitted.

Then In 2022, McCrossen-Nethercott sued the CPS after it admitted her rape case should not have been dropped, and the CPS paid her compensation of £35,000, “apologised unreservedly” to her for dropping it like they did.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...s-decision-to-drop-case-after-sexsomnia-claim

'In the BBC TV programme Sexsomnia: Case Closed?, McCrossen-Nethercott said she had woken up at 5am half-naked and accused the man she was with of raping her.'




'The judge said he accepted expert evidence of sexsomnia including Mendis' family, friends and girlfriend saying he fell asleep quickly, slept deeply, continuously moved his arms and limbs while asleep, and grabbed people when asleep.

'I accept such observations were made by multiple friends with whom the accused had countless sleepovers with over many years,' the judge said.

The judge also pointed to the psychiatrist's conclusion that 'the complainants' statements strongly suggested that the accused was asleep when the offences occurred'.'


 
Maybe the first ever case in Australia of someone being found not guilty of child sex offences because they were probably suffering from a sleep disorder called 'sexsomnia'. (otherwise know as parasomnia). See today's DM article far below.

Interestingly, there's a UK case (victim McCrossen-Nethercott) where the Crown Prosecution (CPS) claimed that the victim could have had an episode of a rare sleep condition called sexsomnia, after waking up to discover she was half-naked, and with the sense that she had been r*ped while she slept.

Based on this, the UK CPS dropped the women's rape case before the scheduled trial, and the defendant was acquitted.

Then In 2022, McCrossen-Nethercott sued the CPS after it admitted her rape case should not have been dropped, and the CPS paid her compensation of £35,000, “apologised unreservedly” to her for dropping it like they did.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...s-decision-to-drop-case-after-sexsomnia-claim

'In the BBC TV programme Sexsomnia: Case Closed?, McCrossen-Nethercott said she had woken up at 5am half-naked and accused the man she was with of raping her.'




'The judge said he accepted expert evidence of sexsomnia including Mendis' family, friends and girlfriend saying he fell asleep quickly, slept deeply, continuously moved his arms and limbs while asleep, and grabbed people when asleep.

'I accept such observations were made by multiple friends with whom the accused had countless sleepovers with over many years,' the judge said.

The judge also pointed to the psychiatrist's conclusion that 'the complainants' statements strongly suggested that the accused was asleep when the offences occurred'.'




Interesting, I was diagnosed with parasomnia 4 years ago. Unfortunately for my husband it doesn’t involve any sex.
 

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It's not often we see citizens tackling someone with a gun.

Members of the public have overpowered a man after he allegedly fired a gun following a car crash in Melbourne's north-east.

A 32-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly fired a shot following a collision of two vehicles near the Williamsons and Manningham road intersection in Doncaster around 11am.

The man left the vehicle and allegedly fired a gun.
 

Criminal elements still influential in CFMEU construction division, report finds​


A report commissioned by CFMEU leadership and carried out by respected barrister Geoffrey Watson SC has found bikies were still influential within the union and that EBA negotiations had become "vulnerable to corruption".

"On the information available to me, I consider that the Victorian branch has been infiltrated by OMCGs [outlaw motorcycle gangs] and by organised crime figures," Mr Watson said in his report. "The Victorian branch has been caught up in a cycle of lawlessness, where violence was accepted as part of the culture, and threats of violence were a substitute for reasoned negotiations. From my investigation, it appeared to me that, in this cycle of intimidation and violence, the CFMEU had lost control."

Mr Watson said during the course of his investigation, serious threats were made against CFMEU officials who were seen to be co-operating with the investigation. He found union branch officials had not only engaged in threatening and abusive behaviour, they had also been subjected to threats, violence or abuse.

Mr Watson made seven recommendations, including that the CFMEU build co-operative relationships with police to deal with criminal conduct. He also recommended further investigation into links with bikie gangs, a review of EBA processes, and the process by which union delegates are appointed. Mr Watson also recommended an investigation into a specific allegation that union official Derek Christopher received around $200,000 in free labour and supplied from building companies in 2017.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09...struction-administration-corruption/104355234
 
It's not often we see citizens tackling someone with a gun.

Members of the public have overpowered a man after he allegedly fired a gun following a car crash in Melbourne's north-east.

A 32-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly fired a shot following a collision of two vehicles near the Williamsons and Manningham road intersection in Doncaster around 11am.

The man left the vehicle and allegedly fired a gun.
Gutsy!
 
What is parasomnia?

Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Parasomnias are dissociated sleep states which are partial arousals during the transitions between wakefulness, NREM sleep, and REM sleep, and their combinations.
 
Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Parasomnias are dissociated sleep states which are partial arousals during the transitions between wakefulness, NREM sleep, and REM sleep, and their combinations.

That sounds like a normal night for me.
 
One law for some, one law for others...

Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards avoids jail over making indecent images of children​

Huw Edwards, the former long-time face of the BBC's flagship news program, was given a suspended sentence at a London court on Monday after admitting to making indecent images of children. Edwards, 63, pleaded guilty in July to three charges of making indecent images of children, relating to 41 illegal images he was sent via WhatsApp — including two pornographic videos of a child aged between seven and nine-years-old.

Judge Paul Goldspring sentenced Edwards to six months in prison suspended for two years, meaning Edwards will not go to jail unless he commits another criminal offence in that time. Seven of the illegal images were of the most serious category, prosecutor Ian Hope said, and both of those videos were marked as "read" on WhatsApp. In response to the second video, Edwards asked the man sending them: "Any more?"


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09...il-over-indecent-images-of-children/104358452
 
Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep. Parasomnias are dissociated sleep states which are partial arousals during the transitions between wakefulness, NREM sleep, and REM sleep, and their combinations.

Also, I’m often really tired and cranky. For years I blamed my husbands snoring. At my nagging he did a sleep study and he’s normal, no apnea. Turns out Im the problem. One of the worst days of my life :p
 

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