The accused
The five accused suspects had over fifty prior convictions for offences including armed robbery, assault, larceny, car theft, breaking and entering, drug use, escaping lawful custody, receiving stolen goods and rape.
Black Orchid wrote: ↑Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:21 pmhttps://www.9news.com.au/2019/02/22/10/ ... -sentencedMelbourne’s Bourke Street killer James Gargasoulas has been sentenced to life in prison for killing six people and injuring 27 others when he drove his car through Melbourne's CBD in 2017.
Justice Mark Weinberg described the actions of James Gargasoulas as “one of the worst examples of mass murder in Australia’s history”, as he set a non-parole period of 46 years.
Gargasoulas stood in the dock flanked by four prison guards holding his hands by his side and wearing blank expression on his face.
Gargasoulas will not be eligible for parole until age 76 for what Weinberg labelled "callous and cowardly act".
“I do not accept that you are genuinely remorseful”, he said.
In one of the city’s darkest days, Gargasoulas killed six pedestrians and injured dozens more when he drove a stolen car along footpaths and through a busy pedestrian mall while in a drug-induced psychosis on January 20, 2017.
The 29-year-old’s victims included three-month-old baby Zachary Bryant, who was thrown 60 metres from his pram, and 10-year-old girl Tahlia Hakin.
Family of the victims filled the Supreme Court to see Gargasoulas sentenced today.
In a letter read to the previously read to court, Gargasoulas insisted he was not evil and blamed "government oppression" for the murders.
Gargasoulas described what he believed were the government and monarchy's misdeeds in overruling "God's laws of liberty" and that the country's legal, social and financial systems were designed to "enslave humanity".
This is an excellent outcome ... UNTIL some progressive judge squashes it on appeal.
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