Advertisement

Repeat criminal Scott Charters jailed for robbery and assault

A criminal who has already spent most of his life in custody will serve a further 13 years in jail in South Australia for robbery and assault.

The Adelaide District Court heard Scott Gavin Charters, 28, had a bad upbringing and started smoking cannabis when young.

Judge Steven Millsteed said the man had bleak prospects.

"You and your four siblings had a sad childhood marred by chronic physical and emotional abuse," he said.

"Since the age of 10 you have spent most of your life in juvenile detention centres and adult prisons.

"You began smoking cannabis at the age of 10 and binge drinking when you were 12. At the age of 16 years, you began using heroin and later methamphetamine.

"The prospects of your rehabilitation in the near future are bleak."

Judge Milsteed sentenced Charters to a further 13 years in jail for robbing hotels at knife-point and assaulting a woman just days after he had been released on parole in 2012.

Charters went to Victoria and committed more crimes for which he already has been sentenced.

He showed no emotion during the latest sentencing and leant back in his chair and stretched afterwards.