Broome camel tour operator escapes jail term after pleading guilty to murdering passenger in camel-jumping accident
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A Sydney man is the first in Australia’s history to be convicted for a 제주출장샵tragic carjacking involving a deadly camel.
Sydney man Anthony Hargreaves, 47, was arrested in Sydney’s north-west after the victim, who was a 23-year-old camel owner, was dragged behind the car and dragged across a median in a crowded car park.
The camel was pulled alongside the driver’s side of his car, where it was hit by another car and 나비야driven over a fence into the bush, Mr Hargreaves was later charged.
Mr Hargreaves, whose family ran an animal rescue group for years before moving to the United States in 2006, pleaded guilty to murder and avoided a trial by pleading guilty to the lesser charge of cruelty to animals.
“I’m glad I went ahead with a plea be골목cause there’s really no excuse for what happened and I am deeply sorry for my actions and the injury I caused,” Mr Hargreaves told court yesterday.
“I have also decided not to be a part of the circus again in the future.”
Mr Hargreaves’s lawyer, Matthew Smith, told the court the plea meant Mr Hargreaves could serve his sentence without further jail time, and that prosecutors wanted the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Mr Smith added his client may seek clemency before his current sentence runs out on September 7.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, police, sydney-2000
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