one charge of aggravated burglary and two charges of assault<\/a> after he and another man went to a Belconnen home searching for a woman they knew as ‘Linda’.<\/p>\nShang said she owed him $100,000 and had stopped answering his phone calls.<\/p>\n
Verbal confrontation turned violent<\/p>\n
Shang and his accomplice had hoped to confront ‘Linda’ after learning she had recently returned to Canberra after some time away.<\/p>\n
However, when they knocked on the door, they found a couple inside who said they did not know where the woman was.<\/p>\n
The situation escalated when the pair pushed their way into the home and a verbal argument turned violent.<\/p>\n
Shang was found guilty of punching the man and punching or pushing the woman.<\/p>\n
His co-accused also attacked the pair, punching and kicking the woman in what Justice Verity McWilliam described as “losing physical control”.<\/p>\n
The male victim said that during the confrontation Shang’s accomplice told him the pair had served in China’s special forces.<\/p>\n
The co-accused later admitted they had no connection to any special forces unit and he had made the claim only to frighten the couple.<\/p>\n
Offending ‘an isolated event’<\/p>\n
Shang was assessed for an intensive corrections order, which would have allowed him to serve his sentence in the community, but Justice McWilliam said that would not be necessary.<\/p>\n
“The character references provided on behalf of the offender demonstrate that, apart from this one incident, he is known to be a kind and gentle individual,” Justice McWilliam said.<\/p>\n
“He is entitled to leniency, and I am satisfied that what occurred was an isolated event in the offender’s life.”<\/p>\n
She said an intensive corrections order was not warranted because there was nothing to correct.<\/p>\n
“The whole process and expense of undergoing a criminal trial coupled with the two days in custody has, in my view, served as sufficient immediate punishment and personal deterrence for this offender,” Justice McWilliam said.<\/p>\n
Shang was sentenced to one year, nine months and four days in prison, which was immediately suspended by the judge.<\/p>\n
His co-accused, who pleaded guilty, was earlier sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison, which was immediately suspended on the condition of a good behaviour order with 100 hours of community service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canberra man found guilty of a violent home invasion in 2023, during which his accomplice suggested they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2666,152998,24278,64,63,78787,2667,152996,59561,1108,1105,191,45052,2289,2668,44,5220,44600,41403,8934,152997],"class_list":["post-259870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-act","tag-aggravated-burglary","tag-assault","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-avoid","tag-canberra","tag-chinese-special-forces","tag-convicted","tag-court","tag-guilty","tag-home","tag-invasion","tag-local-news","tag-local-stories","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-sentence","tag-supreme","tag-violent","tag-xiantao-shang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}