SERIAL conman Brenton Robert Jarrett yesterday had two jail terms varied for offences of failing to comply with conditions imposed on him as a registered sex offender.
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Jarrett, 42, of Howlong, appeared in the District Court at Albury for severity appeals lodged after he was jailed in July.
Magistrate Tony Murray imposed 12-month jail terms with a minimum of six months for eight fraud offences.
But Jarrett was given 14 months, with a minimum of eight months, for two matters of failing to comply with conditions as a sex offender.
Solicitor Elizabeth Bushby said there were no appeals against the fraud penalties, only the other two matters.
Ms Bushby said Jarrett suffered from bipolar disorder and suffered from grandiose ideas or beliefs.
Judge Robert Cogswell varied the first breach of the registered sex offender conditions from a jail term to a three-year bond.
The second offence was altered to a 13-month jail sentence with a minimum of seven months.
He will now be eligible for release from custody on February 21 next year.
Jarrett, who has previously claimed to be Johnny Depp’s brother, US actor Skeet Ulrich and the grandson of legendary Hollywood film director Alfred Hitchcock, attended the Albury police station on May 10 to advise he had a new mobile phone number and email address at DM Productions.
Jarrett said it was his new venture, but indicated it was not a registered company.
Four days later a representative from the modelling industry contacted Albury detectives with concerns about a man named Robbie Caine, from DM Productions.
Detectives were told “Caine” had contacted a number of models’ Facebook pages and claimed he was a part-owner of the Nine Network.
He tried to organise meetings with the models on the premise of offering weather presenter positions.
The industry representative believed “Caine” was really Brenton Jarrett and told him so in a conversation.
Jarrett was put on the NSW Child Protection Register after being charged in Victoria with offences relating to a teenage girl.
He met a girl, 14, on a Sydney-bound train on January 20, 2012, said he owned a modelling agency and told her she had the looks for a model.
Jarrett and the girl exchanged text messages from January 25 to February.
