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Threats in court A man accused of stealing a car involved in a multiple-fatal crash in Cranbourne has threatened to burn down Dandenong Magistrates' Court during his bail hearing on 13 August. Jack Ledlin, 18, urged the magistrate to let him out to hug "for the last time" his hospitalised girlfriend, critically hurt with pelvic and spinal injuries in the smash on South Gippsland Highway on 11 August. "She might not be here tomorrow, bro," he told judge Jack Vandersteen. "If she dies tomorrow I'm burning this whole f***ing place down. It's torture." He said he didn't want his last memory of his girlfriend to be of her inside the car wreck, in which two teenagers had died.
He told his lawyer: "I don't care if they lock me up for 10 years, I just want to hug her for the last time." With his bail hearing adjourned until the next day, Ledlin punched the dock's clear partition as he was led to police cells. His screaming profanities from the cells were clearly heard in the court. Ledlin was charged with the theft of a blue 2008 Holden Commodore sedan during an aggravated burglary in Frankston about 6am on 11 August. Later that day, the sedan was observed on South Gippsland Highway near Camms Road swerving from the right lane across three lanes of traffic to overtake a car on the left, police told the court hearing on 13 August. It overcorrected, oversteering and rotating
out of control as it veered right across traffic, police prosecutor Leading Senior Constable Matt Walker said. The sedan crossed a median strip airborne, the court heard. It crashed into an oncoming Holden Captiva driven by a mother with her two children in tow. The mother was hospitalised with serious chest injuries, her children aged 6 and 9 suffered minor injuries, the court heard. Two of the Commodore's rear passengers Byron Hampton, 16, and Jordy Kirkwood, 18, died at the scene. Ledlin's girlfriend had also been seated in the rear. The court heard that the driver reported as Dylan Cassidy, 20, of Frankston, crawled out a window of the wreck and fled from the scene. Witnesses reported Cassidy throwing out
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items, such as a small plastic bottle containing a "clear liquid", from a bumbag around Camms Road. He was caught by passers-by about 200 metres from the crash. Ledlin, who had been in the front passenger seat, was detained by witnesses at the scene, the court was told. Magistrate Jack Vandersteen said it was the "catastrophic event everyone seeks to avoid". He was concerned about reducing Ledlin's risk of reoffending on bail, noting his charge of failing to answer bail as well as having no fixed residence in recent weeks. He remanded Ledlin to appear at a bail hearing on 14 August, pending a Youth Justice assessment.
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