The Canberra Times reports that the man being very grudgingly treated at Canberra hospital after yesterday’s fatal collision on Yamba Drive is one Justin Monfries:
The 24-year-old, who has an extensive criminal history, was on bail for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon, specifically a machete.
He had entered pleas of not guilty to the allegations.
Monfries has been diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome, and at a bail application earlier this year told the court through his lawyer he was terrified of being returned to prison.
On Facebook there is a Justin Monfries revelling in the userid of “evilkid666″.
UPDATE 04/05/12 14:38: Google gives a hefty list of court appearances.
Also the Chief Police Officer has tweeted the charges:
UPDATE 04/05/12 15:12: The police media release is now up:
ACT Policing has charged a 24-year-old Kambah man following a fatal collision yesterday (Thursday, May 3) afternoon.
Around 4.45pm a 38-year-old woman was killed and another suffered serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle while crossing the road outside The Canberra Hospital.
Police will allege the vehicle was stolen when it ran a red light and hit the pedestrians who were crossing the intersection at Bateson Road.
The man was discharged from The Canberra Hospital early this afternoon (Friday, May 4), and transported to the ACT Watch House, where he was charged with manslaughter, culpable driving causing death, culpable driving causing grievous bodily harm and other traffic related offences.
He will face the ACT Magistrates Court this afternoon.
UPDATE 04/05/12 18:53: The ABC has named the victims as the “killed Linda Cox, 38, who worked in the hospital’s cardiology department and seriously injured Ashlee Bumpus, 25″
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IrishPete said :
I assume, with your comment, the irony is that you would then be one of the ones taken out back and shot?
The guy pictured is not Justin Monfries.
mareva said :
Another good reason why lynch mobs are bad.
mareva said :
Hmm… Wait a sec… Yes, yes it is Justin.
Haha what? so I just looked at the facebook page:
“Justin likes Alexander Machonocie Centre. · Like Page · Find More Pages”
For real? could this page be a joke or a vindictive prank? hacked maybe? or could he really be that thick?
I know someone had made a page about CRK that would have made eyes bleed at the ACT department of justice & community safety, but that page seems to have been removed.
-it came up shortly after the Riotact post on “the Queen vs you-know-who” was removed.
oh wait, the CRK one is still there. Hasn’t been removed yet.
Last night I had a dream that Justin Monfries and Amber Westin had a baby together.
ScienceRules said :
Alright! We appear to be roughly on the same page. Thanks for the clarification and I’ll say no more on the issue then.
Deckard said :
Bahahahaha, oh dude, nicely done. You found me and uncovered my shameful secret, the love of knitted socks. Wow, there’s some strange people out there. :-s
Looks like CRK was back in court a couple of weeks ago for another bail related matter.
[Link deleted because we could go to prison for letting you know the turd's name.]
milkman said :
Sorry – didn’t realise it was an issue.
We’re already on a warning for linking to court documents. Which is ludicrous but I don’t care enough about the issue to be a prisoner of conscience over it.
johnboy said :
You’re right – linking to publicly available information should hardly be an issue, but I suspect the powers that be might have a problem with you running RiotACT from within the AMC.
Still, you could probably get some good interviews…
johnboy said :
How does that work?
DHCS write a letter warning us off, or else.
johnboy said :
That is, well, quite incredibly amazing.
Not to mention completely ridiculous.
johnboy said :
Maybe you should seek cooment from Corbell.
He’s the AG at the moment isn’t he?
the laws surrounding children are not sane in any conventional sense. But do give bureaucrats and lawyers great powers.
johnboy said :
this one I take it?
http://the-riotact.com/does-the-children-and-young-people-act-2008-need-changing/
I’m somewhat surprised that the letter is still up actually.
johnboy said :
Where’s Derryn Hinch when you need him?
Geez the law is an ass.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/act/ACTSC/2011/203.html
Refshauge even spells it out:
When granted bail on 26 October 2011, the conditions of the bail included a curfew in the following terms: “Not to absent yourself from your place of residence between 8 pm and 8 am daily and present yourself to any police officer during those hours.”
There is no question that two police officers attended and there is no question that Monfries failed to present himself as required by his bail.
Absolutely clear-cut.
Or so you would think – but Refshauge decides to come up with 17 paragraphs of waffle considering the irrelevant question of whether Monfries was at home or not.
Including this pearler:
Thus, the logic of Australian white society is not always a sure sign of the approach that should be adopted in the assessment of evidence from those of Aboriginal descent.
Why do we have dimwits occupying our benches, sucking up vast sums of ratepayers’ money, only to produce rubbish that my 12-year-old could do better with.
johnboy said :
Are you able to post the letter up?
johnboy said :
WTF? Really? You got pinged for linking to documents that are publicly available?
HenryBG said :
Well that is part of the justification for the jury system – to prevent judges from substitution their own judgement for those views that are representative of society as a whole.
Of course, that would require people to turn up to jury duty, and there are just so many selfish pricks in society who think jury duty is beneath them, so we are left with this.
Maybe he can use this new option to reduce his likely ’12 month good behaviour bond’ conviction for his latest hit-and-run manslaughter to a 6-month one?? After all, i’m sure he was sooo close to ‘rehabilitation’ and this incident was just an unfortunate slip up….
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/sentence-discount-on-offer-for-smooth-criminal-trials-20120506-1y7cw.html
for some reason I can’t quote, but to Henry BG, did you read the rest of the judgment which concludes:
I will also note that contact was made with the probation officer assigned to supervise Mr Monfries and he told Mr Monfries in colourful language to present himself forthwith.
This, no doubt, resulted from the report of the police officers that Mr Monfries had breached his bail. This was said to be about 20 minutes or so after the police officers had left.
The timing is not clear, but it may well be that this occurred shortly after 8.30 am, which I think I can take for judicial notice is the standard commencement time for ACT public servants. While the estimation of time for the relevant events is not such that an accurate prediction is possible, it is not beyond reasonable bounds.
The significance of this is that it supports the submission of Mr M Lalor, who appeared for Mr Monfries, that Mr Monfries was present at his residence at the relevant time. Taking all these matters into account, I am not satisfied to the relevant degree, namely on the balance of probabilities, that Mr Monfries was not at his residence.
In other words, not actually a finding that Monfries breached his bail conditions.
I presume everyone commenting realises that ‘bail’ means ‘charged but not yet put on trial’ and, hence, under our system of law, innocent. If you read that latest bail decision, he was charged in 2008 with various theft offences but had not been tried by 2011. No explanation given as to the delay, but are people saying he should have been in custody all that time?
I’m not defending him, I am trying to point out that people are jumping to conclusions based on things that arent actually correct. I appreciate this is the internet.
milkman said :
Children make mistakes, the point of the CaYP Act is to give them second (or higher) chances.
The fact that CRK’s daddy keeps throwing money around to make certain problems stay below the radar doesn’t seem to have clicked for CRK yet, who so desperately wants a criminal reputation and to throw those (many) chances back into the face of the community, stop linking him to his childhood crimes and let the adult crimes have the consequences they so richly deserve.
If CRK wants the profile and treatment that comes with an adult criminal reputation, let him have it.
HenryBG said :
In jail for inciting a lynch mob?
Dilandach said :
http://the-riotact.com/does-the-children-and-young-people-act-2008-need-changing/
devils_advocate said :
Perhaps you would care to review the exact wording of the bail condition
s to ensure you are not making the same mistake as the judge did:
“Not to absent yourself from your place of residence between 8 pm and 8 am daily and present yourself to any police officer during those hours.”
The crim did *not* present himself to police as per the bail conditions. Whether he was at home or not is an irrelevance which successfully distracted the judge, and you, it seems.
devils_advocate said :
Yes, because bail applications are often held before a panel of jurors being insulted with a $96/day compensation for their efforts. You have NFI, do you?
HenryBG said :
I was responding to what was clearly a generalised whinge about the judiciary, by someone who is committed to being part of the problem rather than the solution.