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…
Sudanese crime
A Sudanese woman who stole a mobile phone from a man who had been bashed unconscious by a male associate was ordered to undertake a Community Corrections Order to perform 100 hours of unpaid community work. The County Court sitting at Mildura on 16 September 2013 was told that 18-year-old Agar Yak had been consuming wine with two co-accused Sudanese men for about five hours before the assault and theft took place. Crown prosecutor David O’Doherty said Yak and the two men left the house in Chapman Street, Swan Hill, Victoria in the early hours of 21 January 2013 after a 21-year-old co-accused had made repeated references about wanting to knock out a white boy, drag him inside the house, cut his throat and kill him. Mr O’Doherty said the group were walking along Chapman Street when the 22-year-old victim was seen walking towards them. The prosecutor said the 21-year-old…