Jason Cory Brackin pleads guilty to wilful damage after cutting GPS tracker

It was only a matter of weeks before a Warwick criminal on parole committed another offence which landed him in back in prison, with his next chance at parole at risk due to his offending.

It took a Warwick criminal just over two months to commit an offence that saw him return to prison after breaching his parole.

Jason Cory Brackin, 34, appeared in Warwick Magistrates Court on January 24 after cutting off his GPS tracking device, a requirement of his parole.

The 34-year-old pleaded guilty via videolink to one charge of wilful damage, relating to when he damaged the strap and cut the ankle monitor off on July 19, 2023.

Jason Cory Brackin will likely remain behind bars until 2025.

Defence lawyer Sarah Campbell told the court Brackin, a father of four, handed himself in to authorities on August 7, going to a local police station almost a month after damaging the device.

He was noted as having a “lengthy and violent criminal history” being jailed in both 2016 and 2020 for sickening offences.

His most recent sentencing in 2020 was over a horrific home invasion in September 2019, where Brackin and a co-offender went to a Warwick address looking for meth but found two residents barricaded in a bedroom, terrified of the men.

One man was beaten severely by the end of a hatchet, and another was slashed with a chef’s knife, leaving a gash so deep it required 90 sutures to mend.

Magistrate Virginia Sturgess told Brackin by damaging the device he had compromised his parole, and his chance to get parole in future would be at risk.

“Your discharge date is November 9, 2025 and you’ve got a real risk of serving the full sentence,” she said.

Brackin was sentenced to nine months imprisonment, to be served concurrently to his current imprisonment.

He was also listed to re-apply for parole on January 24.