A Westgate inmate who pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman prison officer will be sentenced next month.

Raymond Kidd was due to be sentenced yesterday for the attack that happened in March 2023 during an incident involving other inmates.

Kidd, 31, admitted unlawfully assaulting the on-duty officer and causing bodily harm, at a hearing before Puisne Judge Alan Richards last week

Yesterday’s sentencing hearing was postponed because Kidd’s lawyer, Cameron Hill, was unable to represent him.

Kidd will now be sentenced on February 19.

Kidd was jailed after playing the leading role in a two-man house break-in in March 2012. During the raid, Kidd threatened one woman with a gun and forced a second woman to perform a sex act on him.

Kidd and his accomplice escaped with $5,000 of cash, jewellery and electronics, fleeing on two stolen motorcycles.

Sentencing Kidd in January 2013, Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said he had inspired terror by violating his victims’ home and person.

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