A serial criminal released into the community after he threatened to stab a Coles attendant has been thrown back in jail.
Jesse Dean Williams, 26, was sentenced in October last year to two years and nine months in prison, but the sentence was suspended upon him entering into two good behaviour orders.
At the time, Chief ACT Supreme Court Justice Helen Murrell said Williams approached the store manager of Wanniassa Red Rooster on the evening of January 30, 2018, and told him in a shaking voice, "Give me all your money".
She said Williams gestured to his waistband and suggested he had a concealed weapon but, unconvinced, the manager brandished a metal bar and Williams fled the restaurant.
Later that day, Williams told a Coles attendant, "Give me the money or I will f---ing stab you", and she emptied $6000 cash into his shopping bag.
Chief Justice Murrell suspended Williams' sentences so he could attend a rehabilitation program but, in January this year, he was ejected from the course for non-compliance.
As of October last year, Williams had already served some time in jail for the Coles and Red Rooster offences.
In a judgment published on Wednesday, Chief Justice Murrell said Williams breached his good behaviour orders by committing crimes on March 10 this year.
She said about 8.55am that day, a man spotted Williams rummaging through his car outside Zone Bowling in Greenway.
The judge said the man told Williams to get out before he pulled him from the vehicle.
She said once Williams was out of the car, he pointed a sheath that appeared to contain a large machete at the man and demanded his keys, but the victim declined and Williams ran away.
Only minutes later, Williams ran off again after another man told him to get out of his car, and a woman chased him down after she spotted him in her Honda.
Williams threw a hammer at the woman and he later stole an idling Subaru as its owner put rubbish in bins nearby.
"All offending occurred as part of the same course of criminal conduct," Chief Justice Murrell said in the judgment.
"It was unsophisticated, brazen, and opportunistic."
The judge opted to resentence Williams for the 2018 offences of aggravated robbery and attempted robbery, rather than impose the initially suspended jail sentences.
Taking into account Williams' March 2020 offences - attempted minor theft, minor theft, burglary, making a demand with menace and taking a motor vehicle without consent - Chief Justice Murrell sentenced Williams to a total three years and six months in prison.
The total sentence will expire in September 2023, but Williams will be eligible for parole in March 2022.
