By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-10 14:39:27 | Updated at 2024-12-25 16:37:15
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US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year
The Guardian ^ | Monday December 9, 2024
Posted on 12/10/2024 5:05:34 AM PST by fluorescence
A US woman who flew to Australia with a gold-plated pistol in her luggage has been sentenced to a year in jail, despite claiming she brought it with her for protection.
Liliana Goodson pleaded guilty to charges of illegally importing an unauthorised firearm and illegally importing ammunition.
On Monday, the 30-year-old was sentenced in Sydney’s Downing Centre local court to the 12-month jail term, of which four months will be served in full-time custody.
Goodson was taken into custody immediately after the hearing and forced to remove her extensive jewellery before being handcuffed and led from the court.
She was initially arrested at Sydney airport in April 2023 after customs officers uncovered the 24-carat gold-plated pistol, worth about $3,000, in her luggage.
The court was previously told she had come to Australia to attend clown school and claimed she brought the gun for protection.
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Magistrate Susan Horan said there was a strong need to deter others from committing similar offences in the future, which could only be achieved by way of a period of incarceration.
“Australia has a strong stance against firearms,” she said.
Prosecutors submitted earlier that the gun looks particularly confronting and would “terrify members of the community”, which Horan agreed with.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand
KEYWORDS: australia; clown; clownschool; guncontrol; lilianagoodson
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1 posted on 12/10/2024 5:05:34 AM PST by fluorescence
To: fluorescence
Australians have put their masculinity in jars and shelved them.
2 posted on 12/10/2024 5:07:03 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
To: fluorescence
Clown School?
Looks like she’s already graduated......................
3 posted on 12/10/2024 5:10:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: fluorescence
That’s a lot of mental illness wrapped up in one picture.
4 posted on 12/10/2024 5:12:07 AM PST by GnuThere
To: GnuThere
Has Roger Moore need notified?
5 posted on 12/10/2024 5:13:01 AM PST by Cowman
6 posted on 12/10/2024 5:13:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Red Badger
How ironic is it that it’s the judge and prosecutors that are the clowns
7 posted on 12/10/2024 5:15:44 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: Cowman
its Britt Ekland in disguise
8 posted on 12/10/2024 5:16:51 AM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: fluorescence
Pussy? My how you’ve changed!
9 posted on 12/10/2024 5:21:10 AM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
To: fluorescence
Why would she need a gun for protection when no one would think of getting too close?
EC
10 posted on 12/10/2024 5:23:55 AM PST by Ex-Con777
To: fluorescence
I am wondering why someone that looks like that thinks she needs protection.
Protection from what?
11 posted on 12/10/2024 5:25:56 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
To: fluorescence
She needs 5 more for that body art
12 posted on 12/10/2024 5:27:07 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: V_TWIN
Another open tackle box kisser
13 posted on 12/10/2024 5:29:00 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: fluorescence
No 2nd Amendment Down Under.
14 posted on 12/10/2024 5:36:29 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
To: fluorescence
I think it’s probably OK to put people in jail just for being stupid.
15 posted on 12/10/2024 5:37:36 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
To: fluorescence
She looks like that and has a golden gun?
She is a total James Bond Villain....and she should be jailed for much longer.
It wont matter though, because she’ll get broken out by an evil mastermind that gets sleeping gas into the air ducts of the jail their keeping her at.
To: fluorescence
I take it she graduated from Clown School?
17 posted on 12/10/2024 5:44:33 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Cowman
I know, huh? Now the James Bond theme will be going off in my head the rest of the day.
18 posted on 12/10/2024 5:46:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
To: Jonty30
I have to admit that this crazy woman makes me proud to be an American. She has the good old Honey Badger spirit that I like in a woman.
19 posted on 12/10/2024 5:47:57 AM PST by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
To: suasponte137
Don’t forget the flying AMC Matador.
20 posted on 12/10/2024 5:48:32 AM PST by Cowman
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