Dylan Voller, an Indigenous teenager whose mistreatment in youth detention became the focus of a royal commission, is wanted in NSW for armed robbery.
Deniliquin Local Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Voller, now 21, this month. Police allege that he was involved in an armed robbery in the rural town of Moama in March.
Dylan Voller is wanted for armed robbery in Moamma, NSW.Credit: James Brickwood
He is also facing a shoplifting charge in the town from January.
Police are urging members of the public not to approach him but to call triple zero immediately if they see him.
On Wednesday, Voller was handed a six-month suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty in Southport District Court to making a fake bomb threat during last year’s Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
He had called triple zero to report that there was a bomb at the finishing line of the marathon.
He made the call from a hospital psychiatric ward where he had been placed for self-harm reasons after being arrested at the start of the Games for public nuisance during an Indigenous protest.
Dylan Voller shackled in youth detention.Credit: ABC
A picture of Voller in a spit hood and restrained in a mechanical chair at the Northern Territory's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre became the defining image of allegations of repeated assault and mistreatment of boys in detention that helped trigger the Royal Commission into Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.
Shocking footage also shows the teenager being thrown across his cell, kneed and knocked to the ground, repeatedly stripped naked and also kept in solitary confinement. He was also one of six boys tear-gassed by guards.
A guard can be heard saying: "I'll pulverise the little f---er, go grab the f---ing gas and f---ing gas them through. F---ing get [name omitted] to gas them through here."
Sounds of crying, vomiting and screaming follow, including cries from one of the boys that he was unable to breathe.
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