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A serial escapee who poured boiling water mixed with jam and sugar over three fellow prisoners and stabbed another in the mouth with a shiv will be eligible for parole in April next year. Cedric Roberts, 22, was sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court last month to one year and nine months’ prison for four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. But, when that’s added to his existing sentences for unrelated offences, he’s looking at having served a total seven years and nine months’ jail by the time he’s released,…
