A would-be hitman was "living in a fantasy world" when he posed as a sugar baby and robbed a boy who was held at knifepoint in a vehicle he dubbed the "kidnapping car", a court has heard.
Defence lawyer Paul Edmonds insisted on Wednesday that Jesse Christopher Kirkwood was "not a gangster", telling the ACT Supreme Court the 30-year-old was in fact an "inept" criminal who was "high on cannabis, almost on a permanent basis" throughout a five-week crime spree last July and August.
