An autistic Adelaide teenager who took a working pipe bomb on a public bus had no insight into how the community would react until he saw his crimes in a news report, a court has heard.
The boy's lawyer said his client was under the impression the bomb would impress his friendsProsecutors want a penalty that will allow the boy to be released under supervision
"I admit that I don't really know how to start — I was never particularly good at articulating how I feel or think," he told Judge Barry Beazley."I had such idealistic goals — I would fix the chasm between my friends, I was going to once again have that feeling of friendship and a bond of trust that I had felt so strongly just four years before."
He said he had never thought about the"free will" of his former friends and did not contemplate that they should be free to choose if they wanted to spend time with him.
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