More time for nursing home rapist
By Shelley Hadfield
September 25, 2008
AN AGED-care worker who raped an 85-year-old woman will serve another year behind bars after the DPP won an appeal against his sentence.
In March, Henry Alexander, then 36, was jailed for three years. But 2 1/2 years of the sentence was suspended, meaning he only had to serve six months.
The Court of Appeal today quashed the sentence. Justices Frank Vincent, Marcia Neave and Mark Weinberg reimposed a three-year jail term, but ordered that only 18 months of the sentence be suspended.
It means he will have to serve 18 months.
Alexander, of Mt Martha, had already served six months.
In their judgment today, Justices Vincent, Neave and Weinberg said the original sentence was manifestly inadequate.
"It simply did not reflect the seriousness of the conduct involved or the significance of general deterrence in a case of this kind,'' they wrote.
They said there should be no doubt about the community's condemnation of his conduct.
"Obviously through the sentences they impose, the courts must endeavour to deter those who would criminally abuse their position and power in this way.''
Alexander also applied for leave to appeal his conviction, but the Court of Appeal today dismissed the application.
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SOURCE: Melbourne Herald Sun
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