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ACT authorities forgot for nearly 16 years that criminal was free while appealing jail sentence

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Updated July 8 2022 - 4:52pm, first published July 2 2020 - 3:00pm

A criminal's recent application for a driver's licence has alerted ACT authorities to the fact they forgot for nearly 16 years that the Canberra man was walking free while he appealed against a jail sentence.

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Blake Foden was a court reporter at The Canberra Times.

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