Fresh-faced offenders: Crimes of 10 young South Australian people exposed
From vicious street brawls to robberies and death by dangerous driving cases – these are 10 fresh faced offenders who have recently found themselves in SA courts.
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From a range of cases including vicious street brawls and dangerous driving causing death, plenty of South Australian teenagers have found themselves in trouble with the law.
Here is a list of young offenders who have recently appeared before the courts, and the consequences they’ve faced.
MAKAYLA-JOY KATHLEEN LILL
Makayla-Joy Kathleen Lill was on “hard drugs” when she bashed and robbed a woman and left her with a severe black eye.
Lill, 19, narrowly avoided jail for her substantial involvement in a robbery on November 27, last year in Modbury.
The court heard Lill, of Para Hills, was accompanied by others w hen she attacked the victim before they fled with the woman’s phone, headphones, purse, keys and bank card.
“You punched her and kicked her and finally took her property after she had been subdued,” magistrate David McLeod said.
Lill had previously pleaded guilty to committing theft using aggravated force.
She was sentenced to 21 months jail, with a non parole period of nine months.
Mr McLeod suspended the term, with a three-year good behaviour bond of $500.
He also ordered two-and-a-half years of supervision.
LUCAS GARY NARKLE
A young man who tried to push his girlfriend in front of a train in Adelaide managed to avoid jail.
Lucas Gary Narkle, 19, faced the District Court after earlier pleading guilty to endangering the girl’s life in October 2017.
The court heard his girlfriend, who was 14 at the time of the incident, could be seen “holding on for dear life” as she was dragged along the station platform by Narkle.
He was taken into custody following the incident and spent more than three months in prison until he was granted bail by the Supreme Court.
Narkle was given a three-year good behaviour bond, with 300 hours community service.
TWO TEENS’ VIOLENT CRIME SPREE
Two Adelaide teenagers bashed a young girl in a “vicious and cowardly” attack at a suburban McDonald’s.
Both a 16-year-old and a 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were sentenced in the Adelaide Youth Court this year.
In February of this year, a 13-year-old was outside a McDonald’s at Gilles Plains, north of the CBD, when she was approached by the teenagers who yelled at her about a social media post and comments.
The court heard the 16-year-old punched the victim’s head, grabbed her hair and pulled her to the ground.
While the victim lay helpless, the 16-year-old continued the attack and the 15-year-old then kicked her mouth with such force that her front teeth were knocked out.
The 16-year-old was charged and eventually released on bail but, in May, she and two other teenagers carjacked a taxi driver as he drove the group to Gawler, north of Adelaide, at 2am.
The 16-year-old struck the victim twice, while another hit him in the head with a glass bottle.
She pleaded guilty to a range of offences including aggravated assault causing harm, aggravated assault, theft and disorderly behaviour.
Magistrate Luke Davis sentenced her to six months in youth detention, including the five months she has already spent.
The remaining month of the sentence was suspended and the girl was released on a 12-month good behaviour bond.
She will also be disqualified from holding a licence until she is at least 18 years old, and must attend counselling and medical appointments as directed.
The 15-year-old, who also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault was placed on a six month obligation to be under the supervision of Youth Justice, with no conviction recorded.
Noah Banjo Turbill
An 18-year-old southern suburbs L-plater who crashed into another car after doing a burnout to impress a friend was labelled “disgraceful” and “appalling” by a magistrate.
Noah Banjo Turbill, of Aldinga Beach, pleaded guilty to property damage, possessing a prohibited weapon and driving offences at the Christies Beach Magistrates Court in November.
Magistrate Susan O’Connor slammed Turbill’s behaviour during the string of offences which occurred over two days in September.
On the first occasion, Turbill caused $560 damage by punching the rear tail light of a random car at Good Guys, Noarlunga Centre, after arguing with an acquaintance.
At the time, police found him in possession of a knuckle duster, which is a prohibited weapon.
The next day, Turbill – who was on his learner’s permit – took his father’s car, lost control of it while attempting a burnout and collided with another vehicle after veering to the opposite side of the road.
Ms O’Connor convicted Turbill and ordered he serve a $500 12-month good behaviour bond and disqualified him from driving for three-months.
He was fined $500 and ordered to repay the $560 in damage.
REVENGE PORN SENDER FACES COURT
A man sent “obscene” revenge porn photos of a 14-year-old girl to her parents and friends.
The court heard the man, who cannot be legally identified, was 16 when he first started contacting the then 12-year-old girl over Facebook.
Judge Jane Schammer said the age disparity had come up in conversation and the victim’s age was listed on her Facebook profile.
The pair begun a sexual relationship in late 2015, when the man was 18 years old and the girl 14.
They exchanged naked photos at the man’s request, some of which had the victim’s face “visible and recognisable”.
The relationship began to degrade with the man becoming “verbally abusive” and claiming to be a member of a bikie gang to intimidate her.
She changed her phone number but the man continued to contact her, threatening to send more of the photos unless she moved to New South Wales where he was living.
“You admitted that you sent sexually exploitative photographs of the victim to her parents and other family members in an act of revenge,” Judge Schammer said.
In 2017, Judge Schammer sentenced the man to two years, nine months, one week and two days with a non-parole period of 18 months.
She decided against suspending his sentence but said the man was eligible to serve his time on home detention bail, adding a 300-hour community service for good measure.
RILEY JAMES MAINGOT
A promising young tradie has had his life turned upside down and now relies heavily on his mum and mates to drive him around, after he was caught drug driving.
Carpenter Riley James Maingot appeared before the Port Lincoln Special Justice Court in August charged with driving a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs.
Police Prosecutor Mick Hart told the court, around 6pm on May 30 police stopped the 18-year-old for a random roadside drug and alcohol test.
Maingot returned the positive test to cannabis, telling police he had smoked the drug earlier in the day.
Maingot pleaded guilty to one charge of driving a motor vehicle with cannabis in oral fluid or blood, and one count of contravene condition of provisional licence – prescribed drug.
Judge Deb Sykes agreed that Maingot had made a misjudgment, fining him the minimum $900 and disqualifying him from driving for six months and two days.
A conviction was recorded.
JERMAINE JORDAN SARUNIC-WILSON
A Port Lincoln teenager walked from court without a conviction despite only completing half of his supervised bail period for stealing a car.
Jermaine Jordan Sarunic-Wilson stood before the Port Lincoln Magistrates Court on an application for enforcement of breached bond after driving a motor vehicle without consent last year.
Police Prosecutor Erin Everett explained to Magistrate Koula Kossiavelos the 19-year-old was placed under a 12-month bond, in which six of those months were to be supervised back in September 2019.
The court heard Sarunic-Wilson failed to meet at least five supervised meetings.
In April last year, Sarunic-Wilson along with another male went through several vehicles to see if they would open before driving off in a car and crashing it into a fence, causing damage.
Ms Kossiavelos told the court that due to no further reoffending, she would excuse the breach.
No conviction was recorded.
BOY’S INVOLVEMENT IN WILD STREET BRAWL
A teenage boy has admitted seriously injuring a man during a deadly street brawl at Mount Gambier last year.
The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in the Adelaide Youth Court and pleaded guilty to recklessly causing serious harm in May, 2017.
The man was left with severe head injuries and flown to the Flinders Medical Centre after the fight, which police said involved two groups of men.
Another man was also injured during the altercation and later died in hospital.
The teenager was initially one of three people charged with murder but that charge was later withdrawn by prosecutors.
HAYDEN JOHN PEPE
A teenager was jailed for more than three years for the “utterly senseless” death of his friend in a high-speed crash.
Hayden John Pepe, 19, was disqualified from driving, speeding and had cannabis in his system when he crashed off the Nelson Rd in Para Hills at 10.30pm on December 19, 2018.
Minutes before the crash police officers in an unmarked police car witnessed the car “fishtailing” as it went around the corner.
The car was estimated to be travelling at around 120km/h when it left the road.
Witnesses to the crash said the car “vaulted” across a gully in Para Hills before crashing into trees.
Pepe’s passenger and friend Phillip Frith died at the scene.
He had to be cut out of the car’s twisted wreckage.
Pepe pleaded guilty to aggravated causing death by dangerous driving in July last year.
Pepe was sentenced to three years and 12 days in prison with a non-parole period of two years, five months and three days.
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