Judge criticises man for ‘carrying on like pork chop’ in deadly assault
By Naomi Neilson|02 March 2021
A Supreme Court judge has broken away from tradition in delivering a judgement to a man – or “nasty hyena” – who was charged with manslaughter following a two-punch assault that killed a “noble wildebeest” in the early hours of a November night.
“Just before midnight on 24 March 1944, British tail-gunner Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade jumped from a spiralling Lancaster, on its return from a mission in Berlin, at an altitude of 5,000 metres. He had no parachute,” read the first line of a Victorian Supreme Court judgement, written by the Honourable Justice Michael Croucher, that set out a punishment for a man accused of killing another in a deadly assault.