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The Canberra Times
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Blake Foden

Judge slams 'magnet for crime' Mooseheads as 'brazen' dancefloor rapist jailed

Dancefloor rapist Parker Bellette outside court. Picture by Blake Foden

A judge has again taken aim at Mooseheads, labelling the Civic nightclub "a magnet for crime" as he locked a man up for raping a university student on its dancefloor in "the most brazen of circumstances".

Justice Michael Elkaim, a frequent critic of the venue he has branded "an unseemly establishment", spoke so much about the place on Wednesday he had to remind his audience he was "not sentencing Mooseheads".

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