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Hoax collar bomber to be sentenced

A man who strapped a hoax collar bomb around Sydney teenager Madeleine Pulver's neck is set to face court for a sentence hearing.

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Paul Douglas Peters, 51, will appear in Downing Centre District Court on Friday.

Earlier this year Peters pleaded guilty to aggravated break and enter and committing a serious indictable offence in relation to the incident on August 3 last year.

Peters entered the Pulver family home at Mosman, on Sydney's lower north shore, armed with an aluminium baseball bat and the fake bomb, which he attached around Ms Pulver's neck after

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cornering her in her bedroom, court papers say.

A document attached to the fake device demanded an unspecified sum of money and said tampering with it would cause it to explode.

The incident sparked a ten-hour police operation before the threats were confirmed as a hoax.

Peters has been in custody since he was arrested in the US a couple of weeks later and extradited to NSW.

It is not known if the Pulver family will be attending court on Friday morning.


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