You couldnât make this up because they wouldnât believe you - Judge Excuses Rape Edition (after confession )
The case is **DPP v Hancock (a pseudonym) [2026] ACTSC 389**. Muller J decided it in the ACT Supreme Court on 6 Oct 2026, read the full judgment, which is available as a [court page]
Offender: He was 16, days short of 17, and is 18 now. He was born in Bhutan, his parents moved to Australia in 2022, and he arrived in February 2025, about six months before the offence.
(Remember Bhutan is Buddhist he would been taught about consent its part of the tradition )
Offence : On 1 Aug 2025, at a house party in Holt, he raped DS, who was 18, in a nearby green belt. It began with consensual kissing. He then pinned her down, ripped her clothes, and penetrated her digitally and with his penis, and forced oral sex while she cried "please stop". He wouldn't let her answer her phone, and it went on for about 20 minutes.
Charge and plea: He pleaded guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent, which carries a maximum of 12 years. He had no priors.
Sentence: The judge started at 2 years and cut it 25% for the guilty plea, to **18 months' imprisonment, suspended immediately** on an 18-month supervised good behaviour order.
A conviction was recorded, and his only custody was 1 day. The DPP had asked for full-time jail.
FFS I have no words . No jail time .
Has anyone noticed itâs the lawyers who the biggest lunatics . 5/11 federal greens MP are lawyers .
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BREAKING NEWS: An Australian judge just let a foreign violent rapist escape prison because he found that the rapist didnât know that rape was a crime in Australia.
Within six months of moving to Australia, a foreign 16 year old teenager committed a brutal violent rape attack.
Australian judge Andrew Muller refused to imprison the 16 year old teenage rapist because he found that the rapist didnât know that rape was against Australian customs - he had âlimited insight into societal norms in Australia.â
In determining the sentence, Justice Muller somehow found that the fact that the rapist didnât understand that rape was against Australian culture reduced his moral culpability for the rape.
I donât understand. This is sickening.
In a victim impact statement, the victim described feeling a loss of dignity, confidence and sense of self.
She said she "can no longer call [her] body [her] own" and that night her life was stolen and would forever be changed.
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