Magistrate Smart fined Bassett $1250 plus police and court costs but spared him a conviction. The court heard he had no criminal history. "He fully accepts responsibility for his actions.Įvitts asked Magistrate Simon Smart to spare his client a conviction because it may harm his employment prospects as an apprentice bricklayer.īassett provided a letter of apology to the court and a number of character references describing him as "a good member of society" who "does not advocate for this sort of stuff". "This man accepts the video circulated had disturbing content. "He's realised the enormity of having access to this material and possessing it," he said. The court heard Bassett claimed he had not actually viewed the video recently but may have opened it as he went through the computer folder.īassett's lawyer Jason Evitts told the court his client did not have any reasonable excuse to possess the material but had downloaded it as a "matter of curiosity". Police seized Bassett's computer and hard drives which contained the extremist material and arrested him at his Surrey Downs home. The court heard the father-of-one downloaded the video two weeks after the massacre in March 2019, but had last viewed the video in April this year, prompting police to search his property. Justin Robert Bassett, 28, pleaded guilty to possessing extremist material in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today.
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