Judge says boy spent 11 days in ‘separation’, despite being unlikely to be sentenced to detention
government is investigating reports of a child being detained for a month despite the boy telling a court he wanted to plead guilty to charges for which a judge says he was unlikely to be sentenced to detention.
Judge Alexander Horneman-Wren said Nathan wanted to plead guilty as soon as possible but the courts had been unable to accommodate a sentence. “On its face, repeated separation for 11 hours and 59 minutes cannot be seen as anything other than the most calculated contrivance to avoid the oversight of the chief executive,” he said.
Horneman-Wren granted the teenager bail, saying he had “performed reasonably well on a conditional bail program” and his “continued detention for these offences is, on no view of it, justified”.
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