A former Sudanese child soldier who blamed memories of a traumatic childhood that triggered a vicious bashing of a Canberra man has been sentenced to three months’ weekend detention. Luay Shaor, 30 at the time, claimed he suffered a traumatic childhood in Africa, which saw him beaten by his family and conscripted into the Sudanese army as a young teenager. Shaor eventually fled Sudan, saying he escaped the army and ran for four days barefoot through the desert to the Egyptian border to escape a death sentence hanging over his head. That particular part of his story was rejected by the court, after prosecutor Anthony Williamson produced immigration records showing he had left from the airport in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. Mr Williamson described Shaor’s story of his childhood as ‘‘incredible’’, and asked the court to reject it as a lie. Magistrate Bernadette Boss – praised the Sudanese bash artist and…