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The court has ordered a mental health report be carried out for a young man accused of threatening to kill non-Muslims in Auckland.
The 20-year-old appeared in North Shore District Court this afternoon via audio-visual link from Auckland Prison at Paremoremo. He has been granted interim name suppression….
The man has been charged with making a threat against non-Muslims in the Auckland community between July 13 and September 7 last year, as well as two counts of supplying or distributing an objectionable publication on August 5….
Defence counsel Peter Syddall told Judge Kirsten Lummis a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) report was also being written by Dr Valerie McGinn….
In a name suppression hearing in September, Syddall said his client “can’t be held in custody for ever”.
Syddall said publishing the man’s name and details of the alleged offending would damage his rehabilitation prospects.
“[He] is not yet in the same boat as Mr Samsudeen, the LynnMall attacker. We have a chance here and we need to do everything we can to make sure that chance bears fruit.”
Syddall said the teen was held in a cell for 23 hours a day.
“He already feels alone and anti-social.”
The alleged offending seemed to result from the man’s social isolation in relation to cognitive difficulties, prosecutor David Johnstone said….
The court has ordered a mental health report be carried out for a young man accused of threatening to kill non-Muslims in Auckland.
The 20-year-old appeared in North Shore District Court this afternoon via audio-visual link from Auckland Prison at Paremoremo. He has been granted interim name suppression….
The man has been charged with making a threat against non-Muslims in the Auckland community between July 13 and September 7 last year, as well as two counts of supplying or distributing an objectionable publication on August 5….
Defence counsel Peter Syddall told Judge Kirsten Lummis a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) report was also being written by Dr Valerie McGinn….
In a name suppression hearing in September, Syddall said his client “can’t be held in custody for ever”.
Syddall said publishing the man’s name and details of the alleged offending would damage his rehabilitation prospects.
“[He] is not yet in the same boat as Mr Samsudeen, the LynnMall attacker. We have a chance here and we need to do everything we can to make sure that chance bears fruit.”
Syddall said the teen was held in a cell for 23 hours a day.
“He already feels alone and anti-social.”
The alleged offending seemed to result from the man’s social isolation in relation to cognitive difficulties, prosecutor David Johnstone said….
