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Why was a terrorist allowed to walk the streets

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8 yrs ago

Why was Martin Place terrorist Man Haron Monis free to walk the streets? Had he been behind bars where he belonged, Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson would be alive today.

 Charged with over 40 serious sexual offences and being an accessory to the murder of his former wife, he’d been convicted for appalling attacks on the families of soldiers who’d been killed on duty in Afghanistan.
 Was it the O’Farrell government’s soft bail law? Was it the magistrates, or did the DPP fail to present the police case properly? When the coroner ordered the DPP to open his files, he claimed ‘legal privilege’. The answer’s simple − rush through a bill retrospectively revoking the DPP’s privilege. The victims’ families, as well as the nation, deserve answers.

spectator 

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Old news is no news

It maybe news to you after your sojourne in the States but very real to us ...

Man Monis should never have been allowed out on bail.

To think otherwise is plain stupidity but unfortunately these Magistrates and Judges and Parole Boards  are never held to account when things happen and people are killed.

It happens in Melbourne as well . When it is close to home it has more meaning . Katrina  Dawson was a fellow parent at my daughters school . 


"More details began to emerge of the terrifying incident in which a Victorian policeman and an AFP federal agent were stabbed moments before the shooting outside the Endeavour Hills police station in Melbourne’s southeast at 7.40pm. 

The dead teenager was today named as Numan Haider, who recently posted on facebook about “dogs” declaring war on Islam.

Haider, from Narre Warren, was a “known terror suspect” and past member of radical Islamic group Al Furqan.

The 18-year-old Afghan had voluntarily gone to Endeavour Hills station to meet counter terrorism officers from Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police.

Witnesses said he made verbal threats against Prime Minister Tony Abbott then stabbed both officers.

Police said they had “no choice” but to shoot dead the teenager after he stabbed the two officers outside the police station.

The Joint Counter Terrorism Taskforce had been monitoring the teenager for a number of months, Victoria Police chief commissioner Ken Lay said today."

the Age 

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catsahoy
8 yrs ago

these sentancing laws are getting worse,     even murderes are getting light sentances,   doing a couple of years and out on home detention .  then do it all again,     women take out rvo on abusive husbands,    and they are never followed up on,   the curts are weak,  and offenders know this,   it goes right across the board,    wife beaters,   child molesters,   murderers , its a joke the sentances given,  the whole court system needs an overhaul, 

It's a whole different discussion Cats . The courts , in particular the Family Court , are totally overloaded . 

We have Judges  deciding political matters , as in should India have cleaNer coal . Should minoriries have extra rights .. Etc 

A NSW solicitor responsible for dealing with gunman Man Haron Monis before the Sydney siege did not read all the evidence against him, an inquest has heard.

Monis was repeatedly granted bail in the year before last December’s Lindt cafe siege, and the conduct of the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has subsequently been questioned by those investigating the siege.

Five ODPP solicitors dealt with Monis over 12 months in relation to separate accessory to murder and sexual assault charges, an inquest heard yesterday.

One of them, Linda Barnes, told the inquest she did not realise Monis had been on bail for other offences when he was allegedly involved in the murder. Had that been brought to the attention of a court, it is possible Monis would have been refused bail and kept in custody at the time of his attack, the inquest has heard.

“I would definitely have raised it if I had made that connection,” Ms Barnes told the inquest.

“You hadn’t read the full brief, had you?” asked Gaby Bashir SC, the barrister representing the family of Tori John­son, who was killed in the siege.

“Not every page of it, no, ­because it takes time to go through that volume of material in among the other matters in my practice,” Ms Barnes replied.

The inquest heard Ms Barnes was moved to another position in August last year, replaced by a solicitor who had never handled a bail application in Australia.

Despite being charged later with about 40 new sexual assault offences, relating to a “spiritual consulting” business he ran in western Sydney, Monis was again allowed to remain on bail two months before the siege itself.

The inquest has heard police believed Monis should not have been allowed bail and drafted a letter asking for a review, but the letter was never sent.

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