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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Toby Vue

Victim used baseball bat to block axe swung by COVID-infected burglar

Jayke Fleury was sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court on Friday after swinging an axe at his victim during a burglary. Picture: Facebook

A COVID-infected, axe-wielding burglar fortunate not to have caused injuries to his victim only because the latter blocked the swinging attacks wrote he no longer wanted to "be negatively defined as a product of my environment" before he was sentenced to jail.

Last September, 36-year-old Jayke Steven John Fleury was intoxicated and alone in his Watson unit, on an upper level, where he was required to quarantine after testing positive to COVID.

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