OWEN Fuller is a young man but is likely to emerge from prison past middle age after he serves time for murder and a raft of other serious crimes.
Some eight offences to which 20-year-old Fuller has previously pleaded guilty in the Local Court will be taken into account when he is sentenced for the murder of Corey Power at Young by Justice Stephen Rothman on May 30.
The charges were mentioned in Wagga Local Court on Wednesday by solicitor Joy Kirby.
Ms Kirby said all the matters would go to the Supreme Court for sentencing on a document known as a form one.
Fuller, of Young, used a tomahawk to bash 33-year-old Mr Power to death in a Young street on August 29, 2013.
Before and after that time, Fuller embarked on a violent rampage that included unprovoked bashings, an armed robbery, intimidation and break-ins.
On August 7, 2013, he and another man broke into a Spring Creek Road business and stole tradesman’s tools.
That crime eventuated in Mr Power’s murder three weeks later when he refused to give Fuller a cut of the money he obtained from selling a generator taken in the raid.
On August 20, Fuller held up the Young Caltex service station while armed with a crowbar and stole $500 and cigarettes.
On September 19, after killing Mr Power, Fuller broke into a Forbes business with another person and stole goods worth nearly $18,000.
Fuller became violent again on October 21 when he bashed a man at Young.
This was followed by another serious assault at Young on November 1, while the next day Fuller “aided, abetted and assisted” in the serious assault of a man at Yass.
Fuller was arrested for Mr Power’s murder in February last year and pleaded guilty to the offence last December.
On remand on the murder charge in the South Coast Correctional Centre after being extradited from Queensland, Fuller plunged a blue pen into the face of another killer, former Tarcutta man Jouni Risto “John” Ahola, on March 4 last year.
Ahola was treated in the jail’s medical clinic for four superficial stab wounds to his forehead, a laceration above his right eye, a laceration to the side of his left eye and a long graze to his right thigh.
Fuller was charged with reckless wounding.
Just a month later, Fuller arranged for a former girlfriend to receive an intimidating Facebook message.
All eight charges will be mentioned again in Wagga Local Court after he is sentenced by Justice Rothman at Griffith. Fuller, who turns 21 on June 12, faces more than 30 years in jail.
