A man who threatened to blow up a Malaysian Airlines plane with 222 people on board has had his sentence slashed after it was argued he was seriously "psychiatrically unwell".
Manodh Marks, the first person in Australia to be jailed for attempting to take control of an aircraft, could be on his way home to Sri Lanka in just two-and-a-half years after the Court of Appeal granted his bid for a reduced sentence. Instead of the 12 years maximum and nine-year non-parole period handed down, Marks received a reduced eight-year maximum sentence.Marks will be deported to Colombo when his release is granted. His lawyer Paul Smallwood told the appeal court he was already on his way home when the incident occurred in May 2017.Within 15 minutes of take-off he went to the Airbus' cockpit door, holding a device with blue flashing lights in his hand and threatened he would "blow the f------ plane up".
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Mental illness, of course
222 less people is a good start.
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