Sean Sonnet, a notorious career criminal who is also the brother of a respected magistrate, stabbed a man in East Melbourne before he was tasered by police.
A career criminal and former lieutenant of gangland boss Carl Williams has pleaded guilty to stabbing a man in East Melbourne before he was tasered by police while wielding a tomahawk.
After entering a guilty plea, Sonnet was on Wednesday sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, with three months to be served concurrently with another term he is currently completing in Loddon Prison for other offending. Sonnet was arrested with two loaded guns near Brighton Cemetery in 2004, when he was just moments away from executing dodgy lawyer Mario Condello, a member of the so-called Carlton Crew.and sentenced to a 20-year jail term by then-Supreme Court justice Betty King, before he was granted a retrial by the Court of Appeal.
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