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flag Gregory Brown, already imprisoned for a 1989 hostel fire, sentenced to 4 months for lying to court to get lighter sentence for child exploitation.

flag Gregory Allan Brown, 63, was sentenced to four months in jail for lying to the court about his personal history to gain a more lenient sentence for producing child exploitation material. flag Brown, already serving time for manslaughter in connection with a 1989 Sydney hostel fire that killed six backpackers, falsely claimed his wife died in a car accident, he suffered brain injuries and PTSD, and he had two children. flag These claims, made during a 2022 sentencing in Tasmania, were exposed after a public complaint led to a 2024 police interview, during which Brown admitted fabricating the stories. flag He pleaded guilty to perverting justice. flag Justice Helen Wood criticized the lies as undermining the justice system, though she noted they did not significantly affect the original sentence. flag Brown, who has a mild intellectual disability and anti-social personality disorder, was released in 2009 after serving nearly two decades. flag He has admitted to setting hundreds of fires and contacting a 16-year-old girl online in 2020 to request explicit photos. flag The hostel fire led to major fire safety reforms.

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