A 64-year-old fugitive surrendered to Australian police after the Sydney lockdown left him jobless and homeless. He was sentenced to an additional two months in prison on Thursday for fleeing from prison over 30 years earlier.
Darko Desic has been in custody since mid-September. He came to the police station. Making a confession to breaking out of Grafton Prison, 620 kilometers (390 miles) to the north, in 1992. He pled guilty to evading legal custody. He is in custody for the remaining 14 months of a 33-month sentence for marijuana cultivation.
Sydney local court’s Magistrate said she has no other alternative than to impose a prison sentence for escaping. She added two months to his sentence. The offence carries a potential maximum of 10 years. Outside the courtroom, defence attorney Paul McGirr informed the media. Desic recently received a letter from the Australian Border Force. The letter warned him, he will be deported upon his release from prison.
Desic, 35, used a hacksaw blade to cut through cell window bars to escape. He discovered bolt cutters in a workshop on the prison grounds and used them to break through a perimeter fence. He subsequently lived three decades in Sydney’s wealthy northern coastal suburbs, close to where he turned himself in to police.
McGir says,” Desic committed no further crimes. He is living under a constant burden of not knowing when he might be behind the bars. His local community where he had worked as a handyman had grown to “love and respect” him.” The magistrate stated, decades have passed since his previous conviction. It demonstrates that he is evolved.