2026-02-03
10 years for 'prolific' offender with 129 previous convictions who repeatedly stabbed doctor during home invasion
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The judge said Hayes had spent 90 percent of his life in custody; first in juvenile detention and then in prison. The judge imposed concurrent sentences of 12 years imprisonment with the final two years suspended for the offences of assault causing serious harm and aggravated burglary on condition that Hayes engage in a residential drug treatment and a victim empathy programme.