>Judge Amanda Chambers took into account 126 days Sari had served in custody on unrelated armed robbery, assault and theft charges in 2024 before they were dropped by the prosecution, and ordered that the 80 days be reckoned as served.
>Judge Amanda Chambers said in sentencing that Sari’s moral culpability was reduced due to his “mild intellectual disability”, and took into account his early guilty pleas and a PTSD diagnosis from clinical neuropsychologist Dr Laura Anderson in 2020.
>“I accept that your impaired mental health would make your time in custody more onerous than that is likely to be experienced by others without a background of trauma,”
>“I have regard to the fact that you told Dr Anderson you found your first experience of adult custody ‘terrifying and traumatising’.”
>The judge noted that Sari started abusing illegal drugs at age 13, had a “concerning” criminal history dating back to 2017, and served 18 months in youth detention for armed robbery, assault, theft and destroying property.
>Then as an adult Sari was convicted of assaulting an emergency worker and assaulting a prison officer, and in 2020 was jailed for a violent crime spree on charges including aggravated home invasion, false imprisonment, theft and assault in company.
>Sari, who has an IQ of between 57 and 68 and has been diagnosed with ADHD, is now on the NDIS and receiving music therapy for drug abuse and seeing a neuro-psychotherapist, the judge said.
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