Arabic version: محكمة قدامى المحاربين ستنظر طلبات رجل ماونت غامبيِر بتهم السلوك الفاضح
Darrin Kingsley Brown, 54, has admitted to an indecent behaviour charge at an OTR petrol station in Mount Gambier, adding to earlier admissions of nudity in local food businesses.
According to ABC News, Brown had previously pleaded guilty to being nude at a Subway restaurant on April 27 and at the OK Pie Shop on April 29, and he also pleaded guilty on June 2 to an indecent behaviour offence at the Surfers Way Beach in Port MacDonnell that occurred on December 17 last year. The OTR incident occurred on May 24.
The ABC report notes Brown entered the OK Pie Shop in Mount Gambier while naked on April 29. In the Mount Gambier Magistrates Court on Friday, his lawyer John Kyrimis described the OTR incident as what he called “similar offending.”
The court heard Brown was in the Royal Australian Navy from the late 1980s through into the 1990s and served in the Gulf War in 1991. Mr Kyrimis told the court Brown was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and said Brown’s wife left him last November, which he took “very, very badly.”
Mr Kyrimis applied for his client’s case to be heard in the new South Australian Veterans Court, which he said was almost “purpose-built for his needs.” “In my submission, this is a matter where getting him the ongoing treatment, the structure and support that he needs is likely to be beneficial both to him and the community at large,” Mr Kyrimis told the court.
Magistrate Kylie Schulz agreed the matter was suitable to be handled by the veterans court at its first hearing, to be held in Elizabeth next month. What happens next: Brown’s case will be handled by the South Australian Veterans Court at its first hearing next month.
This story matters because the offences occurred in public businesses and on a beach, and the court has considered a specialist veterans court pathway intended to provide ongoing treatment, structure and support that the lawyer said is likely to be beneficial both to Brown and the community at large.
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