By MICHELLE HERBISON
A 41-year-old’s Ocean Grove parents have secured an intervention order against him after he assaulted his ailing mother in an ice-induced psychotic rage.
Geelong Magistrates’ Court heard this week that the man travelled from Darwin to visit his parents following his mother’s heart attack.
Police Prosecutor Senior Constable Alana Jackson told the court at 6am on 17 February the man’s father asked him, “What are you on?”, after finding him behaving loudly in the kitchen.
“He responded with, ‘I’m not on anything but I could cut you up and put you in a box’.”
Later the man yelled from his bedroom, “There’s a snake in my room!”, but his father reassured him it was only the man’s walking stick, Snr Const Jackson said.
At 7.35am after his father left the house the man “yelled and screamed in an aggressive tone” to his mother.
“His mother slightly slapped him with an open hand and then he slapped her over the face,” Snr Const Jackson said.
The man resisted police who handcuffed him and took him to their van where he put his feet against the door in attempt to stop it closing.
“At the Bellarine Police Station he opened an old cut on his finger and smeared blood all over the cell,” Snr Const Jackson said.
Police used capsicum spray to stop the man when he ran out of the cell as they opened the door.
The man pleaded guilty to charges of threat to kill, unlawful assault and three counts of resisting police.
His defence said ice “played a significant part in the offending” but his behaviour on the drug “never got out of hand as much as this time”.
The man had taken pain medication since a 1993 accident, the court heard.
He had lived in Darwin for 10 years and planned to return.
Magistrate Michael Coghlan fined him $2000.
“(Your mother) had to put up with the stress of all this after having a heart attack; the stress of having to get an intervention order on their own child all because you wanted to have a go at the ice,” Mr Coghlan said.
“Come on, you’re 41 years old.”
