A man jailed for attempted robbery armed with a knife had previously poured super glue into his ears to stop voices telling him to "do bad things", a court has heard.
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Scott Jamieson Mosely, 43, of Goulburn appeared before Goulburn Local Court on October 21. He previously pleaded guilty to assault with intent to rob armed with an offensive weapon, and larceny.
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Documents tendered to the court said on February 24 Mosely entered a licensed premises in Goulburn at around 3pm and encountered the victim in an entryway.
Police allege Mosely pulled a 30cm-long knife out of his pocket and told the victim to lay on the ground, asking, "Where's the money?"
The victim replied he didn't have any money. Mosely then pulled out a drawer at the front desk and went into the office before he left via a back entrance.
The victim called the police, who recognised Mosely on CCTV footage.
Mosely was located by police at around 4pm and placed under arrest. Upon arrest he said "I did it, I did it".
He told police he had thrown the knife into a river and identified the location.
Police allege a Visa card with the name of the victim was located in his wallet.
In an electronically recorded interview with police Mosely said he could see how scared the victim was, and also felt scared himself.
He told police he could still see the look on the victim's face and wished he could take it back.
In court on Thursday, Mosely was called to give evidence.
Mosely told the court he decided to commit the offence "then and there".
"I would never have hurt the guy, it was the silliest thing I've done in my whole life," he said.
"I think about it everyday, I was on drugs but that's really no excuse."
Mosely told the court he had been in jail since February 2021, had not used drugs while in custody and was on a methadone program.
During this time Mosely said he had no contact visits from his partner or family.
He said inmates at Junee Correctional Facility were locked in cells with "no showers, no time out, nothing".
In a response to a question from the crown about his past failed involvement in rehabilitation programs, Moseley said, "I'm a lot older [now], I know what a normal life is.
"If I did rehab this time I'd complete it and wouldn't do drugs again."
Defence Barrister Hugh White said "a very strong factor [in the case was Mosely's] contrition and remorse."
"His intention was not to use the knife, although the victim didn't know that," he said.
Judge Julia Baly found "the whole situation has arisen because of his drug use" and "was an entirely impulsive spontaneous offence".
She told the court Mosely was on conditional liberty at the time and had removed an electronic monitoring device from his ankle.
She said the knife was "capable of killing or inflicting serious injury".
In sentencing, Judge Baly took Mosely's life experience into account. She said he was suspended from Knox Grammar School in Sydney for truancy and had started using drugs around this time.
She said Mosely had a "long history of drug and alcohol abuse" and had taken multiple drugs, including cannabis, ice, heroin and Xanax, since he was 15 years old.
The judge said Mosely had told a psychologist he heard voices that instructed him to "do bad things".
She told the court these hallucinations had caused Mosely to pour superglue in his ears to stop the voices. The psychologist found this was related to drug use.
Judge Baly found Mosely did "not have good prospects of rehabilitation" and was not "unlikely to re-offend".
Mosley was jailed for two years in total with a non-parole period of one year and four months.
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