The Supreme Court of Tasmania made a two-and-a-half year high risk offender order under s 35(2) of the Dangerous Criminals and High Risk Offenders Act 2021 (Tas), being satisfied to a high degree of probability that the respondent posed an unacceptable risk of committing another serious offence without such an order. The Court imposed conditions including a daily curfew (12am–5am), prohibition on alcohol and illicit drug consumption, mandatory drug and alcohol testing, and engagement in directed therapeutic interventions, rejecting the respondent's objections to the curfew and no-alcohol conditions on the basis that alcohol consumption was the primary risk factor for his violent offending and the curfew condition included sufficient flexibility through probation officer approval.
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