Australian lawyer imprisoned for armed robbery of bottle shops (liquor stores) struck off

Australian Lawyers’ Weekly reports…

A Wollongong lawyer, who is currently imprisoned for multiple offences including armed robbery, has been removed from the roll of practitioners in NSW.

Michael Arthur Hislop, who was admitted in 2013, was arrested and charged in August 2017 with two counts of armed robbery after holding up bottle shops in Warrawong and Unanderra respectively. At the first opportunity, he pleaded guilty in the Local Court at Wollongong and was subsequently sentenced to two years and six months’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 14 months.

In July 2018, he notified the Law Society of NSW of the charges, his guilty plea, conviction and sentence.

In October of that year, he was released on parole, but in February 2019, he was again arrested on two counts of robbery, following offences committed at a Travel Money Oz currency exchange store and an Allied Mart convenience store, both located in Sydney’s CBD.

His parole was revoked, and he was taken into custody. He again pleaded guilty at the first opportunity, in Local Court at Central, and he was subsequently sentenced to imprisonment for three years, with a two-year non-parole period.

He will next be eligible for parole in February 2021 and will remain under sentence until February 2022.

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