Disgraced former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer has spent most of the past five months in segregation, held in his prison cell for 23 hours a day, and could face years more in prison for lying to the courts.
The judge who will sentence him for two counts of perverting the course of justice and one count of making a false statement under oath suggested at a Wednesday hearing that Mehajer’s intelligence could be part of his undoing.
“He’s not an unintelligent man,” NSW District Court Judge Peter Zahra said at the sentencing hearing.
“He acts quite deliberately.”
The charges arose from affidavits Mehajer tendered in earlier bail applications saying he needed to be free, or have his curfew lifted, to work as a building manager. Prosec…
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