A man who unsuccessfully asked the court for leniency because he had witnessed people being murdered in the Sudan when he was a child was sent to jail in Orange Local Court on Monday.
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Dut Dut, 30, formerly of Torpy Street, had been in and out of jail for crimes committed when he was intoxicated, had breached multiple court orders for rehabilitation and alcohol bans before he appeared in court, via a video link from jail, for a similar offence on Monday.
Dut was subject to rehabilitation and treatment conditions as well as orders not to drink alcohol when he got drunk and banged on a woman's door about 2.20am, when she was home alone, and yelled that he was going to kill her on October 13.
According to police, Dut yelled "I'm going to f***ing kill you, I am the man," and he repeated the threat two or three times before police were called.
Solicitor Simeon Miller said Dut blamed the residents of the unit for him being made homeless.
Mr Miller said Dut's Torpy Street unit was reallocated when he was serving a six-month non-parole period between November 2018 and May 2019, for assaulting a police officer.
When he gets on the drink he gets violent and he assaults people.
- Magistrate David Day
He said Dut self medicated with alcohol due to mental health issues stemming from his experiences in the Sudan before he moved to Australia in 2006.
"As a child he saw a number of murders committed in front of him; he was a victim of violence," Miller said.
However, magistrate David Day said he was aware of Dut's anxiety from being "exposed to a bloody and vicious civil war in the Sudan", when he sentenced him previously but Dut had not sought help and continued to drink.
"He drinks too much and it doesn't agree with him," Mr Day said.
"When he gets on the drink he gets violent and he assaults people."
Mr Day gave him a seven-month jail sentence with three-month non-parole period from October 13 to January 12, and ordered him to undertake alcohol rehabilitation and abstain from alcohol. Dut swore when the sentence was given so Mr Day had his video link disconnected.
He also resentenced Dut for breaching previous community correction orders and conditional release orders Dut was given for offences including intoxicated behaviour and urinating in a Bathurst police cell a week after he was released on parole for a jail sentence connected to his intoxication.
He replaced the orders with 18-month community correction orders that will start when he is released from jail and they will include further rehabilitation and alcohol bans.
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