Accused who cried poor buys iPhone
- Kate Jones From: Herald Sun August 28, 2010
AN accused Bob Jane T-Mart rioter who told a court he couldn't afford anger management classes has boasted about his new iPhone on Facebook.
Maxwell Brett Lawson, 21, told friends he lined up at Chadstone to buy the new iPhone, which costs $49 a month on an entry-level plan.
On Thursday Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard Lawson, of Junction Village, had not been attending $100 anger management sessions, despite being ordered to as part of his bail conditions.
A lawyer for Lawson told the court the sessions were too expensive for Lawson.
Despite this, magistrate Donna Bakos extended his bail.
Lawson will face court again on January 19 with eight other men charged over the Oakleigh riot, which caused more than $50,000 damage.
While leaving court on Thursday, Lawson happily smiled for photographers while talking on his mobile phone.
Asked if he found the court case funny, Lawson said he took it very seriously, but had found his photo in the Herald Sun amusing.
"If I found it funny I wouldn't have got a lawyer and followed my bail conditions," he said. "I want it over and done with. I'm over it, sick of it."
He said he could not afford the anger management course because he was "short on funds".
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