Release for ‘world record’ wanker ‘not a soft option’, court hears
Darwin’s ‘world record’ wanker Gary Chisholm is not mentally ill, ‘he just likes displaying his penis for the benefit of others’ and should be locked up, a court has heard.
Police & Courts
Don't miss out on the headlines from Police & Courts. Followed categories will be added to My News.
DARWIN’S “world record” wanker Gary Chisholm is not mentally ill, “he just likes displaying his penis for the benefit of others” and should be locked up, a court has heard.
The 47-year-old pleaded guilty in the Darwin Local Court last week to gross indecency in a public place after he was caught fondling himself at the Casuarina nudist beach on August 25.
In further submissions on Friday, Chisholm’s lawyer Peter Maley produced a script for medication his client said was prescribed to help with his hyperactive libido.
MORE NT COURT NEWS
Mobile speeding fines issued in Darwin and Palmerston since January 2020 ‘unlawful’, court hears
Bid to overrule families’ refusal to consent to COVID jab fails
Mr Maley said he was yet to obtain expert evidence on the drug but sought a further adjournment so he could do so while Chisholm was assessed for his suitability for home detention.
But prosecutor Ian Rowbottom said the drug was a commonplace antidepressant which “could probably be equated with” the once popular analgesic Bex powder.
“There’s no suggestion that Mr Chisholm has a mental illness — he just likes displaying his penis for the benefit of others,” he said.
Mr Rowbottom said Chisholm had a string of priors for similar offending had “gone way past” the point of being afforded the leniency of a home detention or community work order.
“This is a man who’s well aware that his behaviour is certainly not normal according to the public paradigm of sexual behaviour,” he said.
“It’s also a man who keeps coming back to court and finding himself released.”
In reply, Mr Maley said home detention was “not a soft option”.
“There’s so many examples of men and women before this court who have said ‘I’d rather go to prison than be on home detention’,” he said.
HOT NEW DEAL: Read everything for 28 days for just $1
“The community would be best served in the long run by having this man assessed for a community custody order and having this man subject to a lengthy period of supervision, rather than being warehoused.”
Alleged funeral killer’s mental health plea
A man who allegedly beat an older man to death during a fight over funeral arrangements may not be able to make a plea over the murder charge.
Station with no cells: Illusion of safety is simply not good enough
If the Nightcliff station is ‘not a police station’, then the sign on the front should be taken down. Pretending there’s a police presence there when there’s not is more dangerous than having nothing there at all, writes Matt Cunningham.