Adnan Baradaaji: Revesby man convicted of gun possession
A victim of a brazen home invasion by armed attackers has himself fallen foul of the law, after the police investigation uncovered a deadly weapon of his own.
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On a November night in 2019, Adnan Baradaaji was sitting on his back porch with friends when his southwest Sydney home was attacked by gun-wielding home invaders.
When police launched an investigation into the violent chaos, an illegal gun was discovered in the possession of the 36-year-old father.
He spent 90 days in jail on remand for attempted murder, a charge which was later dropped, to be ultimately sentenced for the possession of an unauthorised firearm and placed on an two-year community corrections order.
In the District Court on Monday, the Revesby man made a bid to soften his sentence and reduce his community service hours to better match up other offenders caught up in the same bizarre home invasion incident.
“He was a victim in his own home, (he was) attacked in his own home by a number of armed men,” his lawyer said.
Those co-offenders were sentenced for hindering a police investigation, which Judge Chris O’Brien said was very different to possessing an unauthorised firearm.
“There is no place in our community, in a suburban community like Revesby for example, for a member of the community to have in their possession a firearm at all, particularly one that is unauthorised,” he said.
“Why does someone in Revesby need a gun,” he said. “Why does someone in our community need a gun in their home.”
Judge O’Brien accepted Baradaaji was of “good character” and that he would’ve been “terrified” when his home was invaded, but ultimately dismissed the appeal against the severity of the Local Court sentence.
“If I had been the magistrate …. I may have been thinking of a penalty greater than the one imposed,” he said.
Baradaaji will serve the two-year community corrections order and has been ordered to complete 250 hours of community service.
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