An institutionalised young man opted to return to jail where he had been stabbed rather than living with insufficient NDIS support on the outside.

Jayden Conroy had spent a large portion of his adult life in jail and was struggling to cope in the community when he decided to attract the attention of police on September 15, 2024.

The 24-year-old Indigenous man wanted to go back to prison despite being stabbed 11 times while in custody in January 2023 and suffering a collapsed lung, a broken nose and black eyes.

To get there, he used a knife to steal $125 from a taxi driver as well as his vehicle - an incident the sentencing judge labelled "horrifying" - before leading police on a high-speed chase through Sydney's west.

He stole $382 and some packets of cigarettes from a petrol station t

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