An attempt by the state government to keep a high-risk violent Riverina offender behind bars for an additional 18 months has been rejected by the Supreme Court.
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However, one of the government’s fallback positions for Justin Peter Noack – a 28-day interim supervision order starting from his release from jail on June 21 – has been approved.
Noack, whose years criminal behaviour includes pulling knives on people in Wagga and violent attacks on people in Leeton and Albury, was last sentenced to a jail term in 2012 for bashing another inmate at the Junee Correctional Centre.
In her judgment, Justice Julia Lonergan SC noted that Noack’s behaviour in prison had fluctuated and deteriorated markedly after April this year.
But the judge noted it was acknowledged by a psychologist appearing for the government that learning of a summons for a continuing detention order probably would have had a destabilising effect on Noack.