A troubled former child star has told an Australian court about the “helplessness and despair” he feels under a crushing financial management order as he sought bail for allegedly assaulting a flatmate. Felix Dean , 27, represented himself without a lawyer before the NSW Supreme Court on Friday when he argued his sole “criminogenic risk factor” was an order imposed in 2019 restricting access to his cash. “It appears to people who have an interest in this case .
.. that I’m just another child star who has hit the drugs and my life’s just carked it,” the former Home and Away actor told Justice Tim Faulkner from a cell in Lithgow prison.
Dean said that despite being homeless as a child, he had done well in the Higher School Certificate and had been able to learn his lines for television. But he said his human rights had been stripped by the financial management order imposed after being given an undisclosed sum as compensation for past trauma..
