Liam Casley fronts court over violent kidnapping and assault

A Dandenong thug who did time over the fatal attack on a tradie is back in court for kidnapping a woman and injuring her in a car over more than two hours.

Young thug Liam Casley has again gone to jail — this time for kidnapping a woman and assaulting her for more than two hours.

A young thug jailed for his role in a brawl that led to the death of a tradie is back behind bars— this time for kidnapping a woman and assaulting her for more than two hours in a car.

Liam Casley, 20, of Dandenong appeared for sentencing in the County Court on Wednesday on charges of kidnapping, recklessly causing injury and driving while disqualified.

He was sentenced to two years’ and 10 months’ jail, with a minimum non-parole period of 18 months.

Casley was sentenced in the Supreme Court of Victoria in August 2021 to eight months’ prison and an eight-month community corrections order after pleading guilty to affray for kicking carpenter Cam Smith in the head as he bled to death while lying on the ground in Seaford.

The Supreme Court sentenced him to an eight-month community corrections order which he breached and a new, 12-month order was then imposed.

Cam Smith, 26, was kicked in the head by Liam Casley as he lay dying on the ground at Seaford. Picture: Supplied/9 News

The latest charges involved Casley using the back of his left hand to slap a 20-year-old woman in the nose which caused it to bleed, pulling her hair and biting on her arm and ear in a car in Karingal on the night of April 22, 2023.

According to court documents, the victim accompanied Casley and two others in his car from central Melbourne early that evening when they came to police attention at the intersection of Spencer and Latrobe St for not wearing their seatbelts.

Police tried to stop them but abandoned the pursuit because of the dangerous speeds Casley’s friend was driving.

The victim then asked to leave the vehicle but Casley refused and the car was driven to Glen Iris.

There, Casley and the victim pushed and pulled each other after exiting the car before he dragged her back into the vehicle and his friend drove them to Karingal where the kidnapping and assault took place in the back seat of the car.

Liam Casley slapped a woman he kidnapped, pulled her hair and bit on her arm and nose during a more than two-hour ordeal in his car.

Judge Carolene Gwynn said the victim cried and told Casley to stop a number of times and that the assault only came to an end after both arrived at his grandmother’s house in Caringal. She suffered bruises and abrasions on her upper body.

In her victim impact statement, she described the consequences of his offending as one of the most difficult things she’s had to experience in her life and said she has nightmares at least two to three times a week,.

“Most concerning was your own ability to control your anger over an extended period of time, some two hours and 19 minutes, when you have had a number of opportunities to pause and reflect,” Judge Gwynn said.

She said the birth of Casley’s daughter in January this year may force him to rethink about future offending.