230 high-risk South Australian offenders placed under extended supervision over the past five years
Almost 50 convicted South Australian criminals were found to be too dangerous to live in the community unmonitored in 2022. See the offenders and their crimes.
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Almost 50 South Australian criminals were considered too dangerous to live in the community unmonitored last year.
The Advertiser can reveal the Attorney-General’s Department campaign to keep who it believes are dangerous offenders monitored in the community has continued apace with previous years with 47 people deemed high-risk offenders.
However attempts to keep some offenders behind bars indefinitely were less successful with only two orders out of 19 applications made in the past two years.
Over the past five years the Supreme Court has granted 230 applications to keep high-risk offenders monitored in the community.
Last year up to November 57 applications were granted by the courts, keeping apace with the 69 applications the year before.
A spokesman for the Attorney-General said community safety was the primary consideration of the high-risk offender legislation.
“Where the court finds that an individual poses an appreciable risk to the safety of the community if not supervised, these laws gives the court the ability to ensure that offenders remain monitored and liable to be returned to custody for an appropriate period of time beyond the expiry of their sentence,” the spokesman said.
“There are a number of factors that could come into play resulting in the increase in high-risk offender applications, including the fact that some offenders may be subject to multiple applications.”
The high-risk applications do not only target the worst offenders, but also those who have committed specific offences.
Barrister James Marcus, who has represented several people the subject of high-risk offender applications said many did not get the education and treatment courses needed to make substantive change to their lives.
“The categories of offences which can result in a high-risk offender are very broad, it is almost impossible to fight an application, the main argument is normally about the supervision conditions,” he said.
“The problem becomes that many of these people have either drug dependency or anger management issues.
“They don’t get access to courses to help them while they are under an order. There seems to be a lack of resources for those kinds of formal programs.”
Aaron Ellis
Placed on a two-year extended supervision order
A northern-suburbs grandfather who was jailed three years and two months for two counts of taking a step in the manufacture of explosives and possessing instructions on how to make explosives.
Police found highly volatile “Mother of Satan” explosive material in Ellis’ Davoren Park home in April 2019.
The discovery forced the evacuation of the home and the controlled detonation of the explosives in the backyard of the property.
Police at the time said the explosives were not terrorism related and Ellis’ family said the grandfather was interested in chemistry.
Christian Rodger Annette
Placed on a 12-month extended supervision order
Jailed for three years and four months in August 2018 for aggravated causing harm by brutally attacking an 82-year-old woman, leaving her in hospital for ten days.
Annette drank a two-litre cask of port before the attack and became convinced his siblings had been stealing money from him.
The victim fled the assault and took shelter with a neighbour until an ambulance arrived.
Among her injuries were facial bruising and bleeding on the brain.
Bruce Roland Carter
Placed on a 15-month extended supervision order
A South Australian actor who featured in multiple films but was jailed for a drunken attack on a man that left the victim’s ear hanging from his head.
On September 17, 2017, Carter crashed his car while drunk in Murray Bridge.
When a bystander went to his aid, the actor put him in a head lock and attacked him, including bitting the victim’s ear nearly off.
Carter had been drinking and taking drugs at the time of the incident.
Carter was jailed for four years and nine months for causing serious harm and aggravated assault.
Mark Alan Chantrill
Continuing detention application refused, placed on a two year extended supervision order
A recidivist offender and martial artist who broke into a woman’s home and tried to rape her.
He was on parole for similar offending at the time of the attack.
During sentencing the court found Chantrill had been under the influence of drugs at the time of the attack and had a criminal history dating back 15 years.
He was jailed for aggravated serious criminal trespass, assault with intent to rape and theft.
The court heard he was a high-level martial artist and was teaching self-defence to fellow prisoners while behind bars.
He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated serious criminal trespass, assault intent to rape and theft and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Raymond Patrick Harley Jones
Placed on a 12-month extended supervision order
A former member of the Comancheroswho was jailed for stabbing a man without provocation in front of the victim’s child.
While awaiting trial, Jones cut off his home detention monitor and went on the run.
He posted taunting photos to social media of himself standing in front of various police stations.
Jones’ lawyer told the court he had severed ties with the Comanchero, though that was not accepted by the court.
He was jailed for five-and-a-half years with a non-parole period of three years on assault charges.
Ronald Pelly
Placed on an 18-month extended supervision order
Jailed for eight years for strangling and raping an escort at a hotel in the city.
He was found guilty at trial of assault and rape.
Pelly had strangled the woman unconscious when she refused to have sex without a condom and then abused her.
The victim suffered long-term traumatic consequences as a result of the attack.
A non-parole period of five years was set by the court.
Anthony Wells
Placed on an 18-month extended supervision order
A former bikie jailed for two years and three months, with a 20-month non-parole period in 2016 for bashing a man who had been kidnapped and then brought to his house.
He admitted assaulting the victim and pleaded guilty.
Wells has spent the past five years either in custody or on a form of extended supervision order.
His compliance with the orders has been poor.
On December 29, 2021, Wells told Corrections workers he had gastro – but a check of his electronic monitoring showed Wells had been at 13 different locations that day.
Blade Antoine Didon
Placed on a nine-month extended supervision order
One of two people jailed for detaining a man at their northern-suburbs home and torturing him over 12 hours.
The victim had stayed the night at the house before the occupants realised he was convicted sex offender.
Didon and others falsely accused him of crimes at the house before launching into a protracted assault, which included the victim being knocked unconscious and hit with the handle of a machete.
Didon was jailed for five years and one month for detaining a person to commit an indictable offence and aggravated causing harm.
Frederick Webb
Placed on a 12-month extended supervision order
A Port Augusta man who pleaded guilty to possessing child exploitation material and jailed for one year and seven months in prison.
The court accepted Webb had fallen into downloading the material after he lost his job at the start of the Covid pandemic.
It was not Webb’s first time before the court having been jailed for committing an act of gross indecency against a child and possessing child exploitation material.
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