Kaide Maslin. Photo: Facebook
Camera IconKaide Maslin. Photo: Facebook Credit: Supplied/Supplied

Perth judge jails repeat one-punch ‘thug’

AAPJoondalup Times

A MAN who had served less than four weeks of a suspended sentence for a one-punch attack when he committed another unprovoked assault has been jailed and labelled a “thug” by a Perth judge.

Kaide Travis Maslin, 21, was sentenced in November to nine months imprisonment, conditionally suspended for 18 months, for punching a teenager in a Padbury street after gatecrashing an out-of-control party in 2017.

Just 23 days later, he punched an 18-year-old man in the face as he stood outside a train station, rendering him momentarily unconscious and breaking his jaw.

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“You’re a thug,” District Court of WA Judge Simon Stone said on Tuesday.

He noted Maslin’s significant criminal record for violent offences, including an aggravated armed robbery, and said he posed a threat to the community.

Judge Stone ordered Maslin to serve the nine-month imprisonment sentence that had previously been suspended, denying him parole.

“The community needs protection from a person like you, because of your violent offending,” Judge Stone said.

“You will serve the full nine months.”

The sentence will be served cumulatively on top of the 14-month jail term Maslin was handed in February for the train station attack.

Maslin was last year found not guilty of grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning bodily harm, charges that also stemmed from the Padbury after-party mayhem.

A jury accepted Maslin’s argument he punched 38-year-old Ryan Ball because was scared after the much larger man tried to headbutt him and missed.

The assault left Mr Ball in a critical condition with a fractured skull and nose, and bleeding on the brain.

Maslin blames many of his crimes on alcohol abuse.