Carl William Sedgwick Bloomfield sentenced in Southport District Court

A YOUNG man told two teenagers he “couldn’t wait to chop them up and throw them in the river” before cutting off one of the boy’s earlobes.

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A YOUNG man told two teenagers that he “couldn’t wait to chop them up and throw them in the river” before cutting off one of the boy’s earlobes in a “sadistic” attack.

Carl William Sedgwick Bloomfield, now 21, was sentenced in the Southport District Court in December to nine years’ jail over the savage assault and robbery on February 4, 2013.

Bloomfield also took photos of the severed earlobe.

He pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery, two counts of deprivation of liberty, three counts of common assault, and one count of grievous bodily harm with intent to disfigure.

The Crown applied for him to be handed an indefinite sentence, but Judge Clive Wall rejected the application.

In reasons published last week, Judge Wall said he wasn’t satisfied Bloomfield would “pose a serious danger to the community under a finite sentence, provided he receives the recommended treatment.” Two of three mental health experts found he was “a moderate or moderate to high risk” of causing serious harm. Bloomfield, who is believed to have once trialled for an under 16 Gold Coast Titans squad, was on parole when he attacked the teens, aged 15 and 16, at Varsity Lakes.

Judge Wall said Bloomfield, then aged 18, told the boys “he had killed someone before, he couldn’t wait to chop them up and throw them in the river, and he had a gun but would rather cut them up and throw them in the river”.

Bloomfield then pulled out a pair of scissors and grabbed one teen’s tongue, pushing the scissors on to it, “drawing a small amount of blood”.

He also cut off a large chunk of the other boy’s left ear, of which he took photos with a mobile phone.

The District Court decision includes psychiatric material that revealed Bloomfield told one doctor that he enjoyed cutting off the earlobe and had thought about eating it.

“I was feeling no emotions. It wasn’t so much the power over him … I just knew that I wanted to cut him up,” he told Dr Andrew Aboud.

When asked about his thoughts on the crime, Bloomfield responded: “It’s not normal, is it? I’ve got a serious problem, a psychological problem and I need help … treatment … I’m scared that I’m going to do something like this again, or worse.”

Dr Aboud said, in his opinion, Bloomfield does not suffer from a major mental illness.

Bloomfield’s violent fantasies and thoughts began at 13 when he was bullied at school.

Dr Velimir Kovacevic said Bloomfield initially dreamt of bashing people up but, over the next three to four years, his thoughts “changed into imagining cutting people up, dismembering them and pulling out their internal organs”.

Judge Wall sentenced Bloomfield to nine years’ jail for a serious violent offence, which requires him to serve 80 per cent of the sentence.

He also recommended Bloomfield receive anti-depressant medication, as well as psychiatric and psychological treatment as soon as possible.

“Any release on parole should be conditioned as recommended by Dr Aboud,” he told the sentencing hearing in December.