A ROBBER has asked a judge to delay his sentencing for a raid on an Adelaide KFC outlet so he can seek a psychological report.

Neil Adam Moseley faced the District Court today, having pleaded guilty to one aggravated count of committing theft using force.

Anthony Kerin, for Moseley, said his client’s position on sentencing had changed since he last faced court in March.

“My client had been, as Your Honour might recall, somewhat ambivalent about providing the court with a psychological report or instructions for me to obtain one,” he said.

“In the interim I have sought those instructions again and they were forthcoming ... I think a report would be of great assistance.”

Chief Judge Geoffrey Muecke agreed, saying “ambivalent” was “not quite the word that occurred to me” to describe Moseley’s attitude toward sentencing.

Moseley, 37, served more than two years’ jail on charges he robbed the KFC outlet at Coconut Grove, Darwin, in August 2011.

He loudly protested his innocence throughout his time in custody and, in 2012, one of Moseley’s fellow prison inmates confessed to being the actual culprit.

When asked why he took the fall, Moseley said: “Where I come from ... you don’t tell on your mates.’’

Moseley was pardoned in October last year, only to be immediately rearrested on an outstanding SA warrant.

He was extradited to Adelaide in November, and later pleaded guilty to having robbed the KFC restaurant at Eastwood, SA, in October 2006.

Today, Mr Kerin asked the court for six weeks to obtain a psychological assessment of his client.

He also tendered a copy of a letter written by Moseley to Chief Judge Muecke.

Moseley was remanded in custody until July.

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