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A Canberra teenager whose childhood was marred by trauma and abuse went on to rob a jewellery store, hold up a Domino’s Pizza and stand by as his school mate had knives held to his throat. An ACT Supreme Court judgment published on Monday said the teenager committed his first offence at the age of 15. In November 2018, he jumped the counter of a Holt jewellery store, opened a glass display and hauled out some $3050 worth of jewellery. His accomplice, who brandished a knife, directed the store’s owner to lie down and another employee to open the safe. The pair escaped with another $375 cash and $5000 worth of 18-carat gold pieces. On their way out, the teenager’s accomplice told the store’s employee: “I will stab you, you bitch.” The owner later said in a victim impact statement that the robbery had left him feeling “nervous” and “insecure”, and that he had become increasingly cautious about security at his shop. Less than a year later, the teenager was at it again. He joined two co-offenders – one carried a machete and the other carried a double-barrelled shotgun – and raided Domino’s Pizza at Holt. The trio were in the shop for 50 seconds and came away with a total $952. In January last year, when the teenager was 17, he and another two accomplices went into a Latham house about 9.20pm through an unsecured side door. They were confronted by a woman – their school mate’s mother – who told them her son was asleep in bed. The trio went into his room, where the teenager’s two accomplices each held a knife to the sleeping boy’s throat. When the boy awoke, one of the accomplices told him: “Give us all your shit, c—.” When the boy asked him what he meant, the accomplice answered: “Don’t f—ing play dumb with us. Don’t make us slit your throat open right now. Open your safe.” Throughout the assault, the teenager stood by the boy’s bedroom door and drank a beer. The victim handed the trio a few hundred dollars. In the published judgment, Justice David Mossop said the boy was only now 16 and, when his mum came to see him after the group left, he was shaking, crying, grabbing his throat and gulping. The judge said the boy had been unable to sleep since the attack, was afraid to leave his house and yet also felt afraid to stay there. “He constantly feels anxious and is worried about his little brothers who were in the next room,” Justice Mossop said. “He described being unable to catch public transport now due to fears that the offenders will get people to harm him.” The judge sentenced the teenager to four months and seven days’ jail for two counts of aggravated robbery, and one count of aiding and abetting aggravated robbery. He said the teenager had already served out the sentence, having spent 250 days in custody on remand, but would also have to abide by two 18-month good behaviour orders.
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A Canberra teenager whose childhood was marred by trauma and abuse went on to rob a jewellery store, hold up a Domino’s Pizza and stand by as his school mate had knives held to his throat.
An ACT Supreme Court judgment published on Monday said the teenager committed his first offence at the age of 15.
In November 2018, he jumped the counter of a Holt jewellery store, opened a glass display and hauled out some $3050 worth of jewellery.
His accomplice, who brandished a knife, directed the store’s owner to lie down and another employee to open the safe.
The pair escaped with another $375 cash and $5000 worth of 18-carat gold pieces. On their way out, the teenager’s accomplice told the store’s employee: “I will stab you, you bitch.”
The owner later said in a victim impact statement that the robbery had left him feeling “nervous” and “insecure”, and that he had become increasingly cautious about security at his shop.
Less than a year later, the teenager was at it again.
He joined two co-offenders – one carried a machete and the other carried a double-barrelled shotgun – and raided Domino’s Pizza at Holt.
The trio were in the shop for 50 seconds and came away with a total $952.
In January last year, when the teenager was 17, he and another two accomplices went into a Latham house about 9.20pm through an unsecured side door.
They were confronted by a woman – their school mate’s mother – who told them her son was asleep in bed.
The trio went into his room, where the teenager’s two accomplices each held a knife to the sleeping boy’s throat.
When the boy awoke, one of the accomplices told him: “Give us all your shit, c—.”
When the boy asked him what he meant, the accomplice answered: “Don’t f—ing play dumb with us. Don’t make us slit your throat open right now. Open your safe.”
Throughout the assault, the teenager stood by the boy’s bedroom door and drank a beer.
The victim handed the trio a few hundred dollars. In the published judgment, Justice David Mossop said the boy was only now 16 and, when his mum came to see him after the group left, he was shaking, crying, grabbing his throat and gulping.
The judge said the boy had been unable to sleep since the attack, was afraid to leave his house and yet also felt afraid to stay there.
“He constantly feels anxious and is worried about his little brothers who were in the next room,” Justice Mossop said.
“He described being unable to catch public transport now due to fears that the offenders will get people to harm him.”
The judge sentenced the teenager to four months and seven days’ jail for two counts of aggravated robbery, and one count of aiding and abetting aggravated robbery.
He said the teenager had already served out the sentence, having spent 250 days in custody on remand, but would also have to abide by two 18-month good behaviour orders.
