Darken was charged with detaining another with intent to do harm, deprivation of liberty, assault, and making threats

A Perth tradie will spend months more behind bars as he waits to learn his fate for the shocking kidnapping of a nine-year-old girl on her way to school.

Ryan Ashley Darken previously pleaded guilty to luring the girl into his ute at Warnbro, in the outer suburbs of Perth, about 8.25am on July 21, 2023.

He left her outside an IGA supermarket in Port Kennedy with her hands bound by cable ties a short while later.

A parent who witnessed the incident alerted the girl’s school, and news spread after the girl’s mother took to social media to plead for help.

The girl was later found in distress at a shopping centre several kilometres away.

Police officers swarmed the area and Darken was arrested and charged.

Darken was charged with detaining another with intent to do harm, deprivation of liberty, assault, and making threats

Darken was charged with detaining another with intent to do harm, deprivation of liberty, assault, and making threats 

Darken left the girl outside an IGA supermarket in Port Kennedy with her hands bound by cable ties a short while later

Darken left the girl outside an IGA supermarket in Port Kennedy with her hands bound by cable ties a short while later

Darken was charged with detaining another with intent to do harm, deprivation of liberty, assault, and making threats.

He pleaded guilty to those charges in the Rockingham Magistrates Court on November 3, 2023.

He was not required to appear in the Perth District Court on Friday, but his lawyer Christian Porter told registrar Jacquie Kubacz that Darken required multiple appointments with a forensic psychiatrist to produce a report for his sentencing hearing.

The court heard the first available appointment was not until July.

The West reported in March that Darken had suffered a head injury in a car accident when he was a child and was considered to be quite functionally impaired.

The case is due back in the District Court for a mention hearing on August 30 before he is sentenced in October.

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