A standover attack in which a man allegedly threatened to shoot off another man’s leg has been dismissed as the “fantasy” of a “crook” in a Canberra court.
Javarne Saipani, 25, is on trial in the ACT Supreme Court accused of showing the alleged victim a gun and threatening to “take off his leg” if he did not come up with money to pay off a large drug debt.
The court heard the threat was made as part of a convoluted situation, where a childhood friend of Mr Saipani had asked for his help, because he needed to pay up to his Sydney connections in a drug dealing business.
It was claimed Mr Saipani was asked to act as a standover man to extract money from the…
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