Garlett Gonski

[LostDoggy]

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How can you say that when you don't know their backgrounds and their personal circumstances?

I know plenty of people with shitty backgrounds and even worse personal circumstances who aren't out knocking cars and burgling. I think it's obvious there's more to this than meets the public eye, however he's an adult and responsible for his actions.

[Axe Man]

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The sad Dayle Garlett story gets even worse with it revealed that he developed a meth addiction whilst at Hawthorn.

Dayle Garlett, former Hawthorn player, admits turning to crime to feed meth addiction

WHILE his former Hawthorn teammates were celebrating this year’s AFL premiership, Dayle Garlett was in jail.
On Tuesday it was revealed why.
The 20-year-old from Western Australia — who is one of the most talented footballers his age in the country — committed several burglaries to feed a meth addiction he developed while trying to kickstart an AFL career in Melbourne.
Handed a lifeline by the Hawks after being overlooked in the 2012 draft, Garlett resorted to a life of crime after deciding he couldn’t meet the demands of AFL football in March.
In May, when a position he could have filled in the Hawthorn side opened up because of an injury to Cyril Rioli, Garlett bought iPads and jewellery for $350 despite knowing they were stolen.
In July, when the Hawks moved to the top of the AFL ladder with wins against Sydney and the Western Bulldogs, he broke into a friend’s house and stole a purse and phone belonging to a cleaner.
Then in September, as Luke Hodge led his team to its third premiership since 2008, Garlett broke into another house, stealing laptops, iPads, a phone and clothes worth more than $4500.
After being arrested and spending two months behind bars, Garlett avoided further jail time when his charges were heard in the Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
He pleaded guilty to two stealing charges and others of aggravated burglary, breach of bail, burglary, committing an offence in a dwelling and receiving stolen goods.
He was fined almost $500, ordered to pay compensation of $4859, perform 60 hours of community service and given a 12-month strict supervision order.
After his pleas were entered, Perth magistrate Paul Heany told the court Garlett had revealed to a psychiatrist he developed an addiction to methylamphetamine during his six-month stay with Hawthorn and turned to crime to feed it.
Garlett cited homesickness when quitting Hawthorn in March. He now hopes to train with his former WAFL club Swan Districts this month.

[bulldogtragic]

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Here's to hoping he can break the cycle and get back on track with life.

[Bornadog]

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Former Hawk Dayle Garlett has been charged with drug driving and theft charges. Garlett has been jailed for 4 years and 8 months.

[westdog54]

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Former Hawk Dayle Garlett has been charged with drug driving and theft charges. Garlett has been jailed for 4 years and 8 months.

That's a lengthy spell for Drug Driving and theft charges. Was it just thefts or were they robberies/burglaries?

[bulldogtragic]

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Former Hawk Dayle Garlett has been charged with drug driving and theft charges. Garlett has been jailed for 4 years and 8 months.

Just another sad case of a kid gone off the tracks. What could've been for him. Having seen kids like him in the system, I cant say I'm thinking he's going to come out at the other side better for it. I feel sorry him that the media are still putting his story up in lights. There's 20,000 other kids just like him who are doing worse on a weekly basis who they don't mention. Just sad really.

[bulldogtragic]

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That's a lengthy spell for Drug Driving and theft charges. Was it just thefts or were they robberies/burglaries?

I was thinking the same. He could while high drive the truck made out of marijuana from Cheech & Chong up in smoke and not get nearly 5 years ordinarily for those offences combined. That's some serious, serious time.

[Cyberdoggie]

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The media loves a falling from grace story, or riches to iron bars.
There has been plenty of others who have had colourful lives after footy that we don't really hear too much off but Dayle having the world as his oyster then losing it all makes an interesting story.

[Twodogs]

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That's a lengthy spell for Drug Driving and theft charges. Was it just thefts or were they robberies/burglaries?

He pleaded guilty to two stealing charges and others of aggravated burglary, breach of bail, burglary, committing an offence in a dwelling and receiving stolen goods.

He's pleaded to quite a few charges and the judge makes some dire comments in his judgement but nearly five years is harsh.

[Greystache]

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I was thinking the same. He could while high drive the truck made out of marijuana from Cheech & Chong up in smoke and not get nearly 5 years ordinarily for those offences combined. That's some serious, serious time.

It's a combination of multiple convictions over a period of time though. You'd need an exercise book the write them all down.

Given the number of convictions for car theft, drug driving, and high speed pursuits it was just a matter of time until he killed someone. Probably the only good thing to come out of it.

[bulldogtragic]

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He's pleaded to quite a few charges and the judge makes some dire comments in his judgement but nearly five years is harsh.

It's the agg burg that's the problem in that without knowing the ins and outs. If it's a genuine agg burg (breaking into a house with an intent to assault a person in there) and not a technical agg burg (broke in while someone was home, but didn't injure them) is very serious. The irony is, if he was an AFL player who could afford an expensive GC and argue incarceration would unreasonably hold their career back (blah, blah, blah) he'd have gotten a lot less.

[hujsh]

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You hope that jail time might help him get sober/ straighten up and help him become a regular person but that's probably a vain hope. How often does prison actually manage to do that? It's pretty sad and the best we can hope is that other people see how wrong things can go (since this has all been made public, as BT said somewhat unfairly)

[Twodogs]

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It's the agg burg that's the problem in that without knowing the ins and outs. If it's a genuine agg burg (breaking into a house with an intent to assault a person in there) and not a technical agg burg (broke in while someone was home, but didn't injure them) is very serious. The irony is, if he was an AFL player who could afford an expensive GC and argue incarceration would unreasonably hold their career back (blah, blah, blah) he'd have gotten a lot less.

Sounds like bad representation. Isn't it agg burg if you break in armed with a weapon?

[bulldogtragic]

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Sounds like bad representation. Isn't it agg burg if you break in armed with a weapon?

Aggravated Burglary is a break in with person/s present. The technical breach is if a burglar breaks into a house and there's someone home down the other end of the house and they don't see each other etc. Yes they broke into a house with someone present, but the intent isn't there.a

The genuine charge is where a burglar breaks in knowing that someone is home, and gets to its most serious in the case of say a rival drug dealer breaks into a house and steals/assaults the occupant. These are not all that common, for instance aspiring detectives would use such a prosecution as an example of managing a very serious charge in order to get promoted.

If he committed the more serious charge, then I can see where the time came from. There are blokes kicking around with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of priors and I've seen not get time necessarily on a bunch of fresh charges, let alone a big spell. I can only guess his agg burg is on the very serious end of things.

[Topdog]

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Sad to hear stories like that but you can't feel sorry for him. Had the World at his feet and threw it away.