By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A MAN charged with breaching an intervention order by calling and texting a former partner more than 900 times has been refused bail.
Brad Wilson, of Doveton, told the bail hearing at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 18 April that he believed the ex-partner had framed him by hacking his phone.
Senior Constable Mike Vaughan, of Cranbourne family violence unit, told the court the two-year de facto relationship ended in October after alleged verbal and physical abuse.
Wilson had been reportedly harassing males at the victim’s workplace in the belief she was seeing one of them.
Soon after being served an interim intervention order, Wilson phoned and texted the victim 954 times between 17 and 22 March.
The excessive contact had a “paralysing” effect on the victim, who had since seen a psychiatrist for her rising panic and anxiety, Sen Const Vaughan said.
Wilson made no comment on the allegations to police.
“I’m not a dog like her,” he told them.
The informant told the court that Wilson had assaulted a second former de facto in a car in Narre Warren on 14 April.
Wilson, who owed the ex-partner money, hit her first in the left arm. He then told her: “I’ll do it, I’ll punch you in the face.”
The victim was punched in the left cheek, causing pain and swelling.
Wilson told her he’d get his “bikie mates” to shoot her in the head. “I’ll do it myself now if I could,” he told her before he was let out of the car.
After she reported the matter to police, she received threatening texts and calls from Wilson.
He told police the partner called him a “fag” and had been hitting him.
At the time he was on a community corrections order on charges of stalking the former partner as well as for an indecent assault in Casey Hospital on 10 December.
The court heard Wilson allegedly forced his way into a female toilet in the hospital, pushed over his victim and assaulted her.
Wilson told the court he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia but denied he still suffered from it.
Magistrate Jack Vandersteen said the allegations involved ongoing family violence since mid-March, despite Wilson being on a community order.
He also granted an interim intervention order to protect the second ex-partner.
Wilson was remanded to appear at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 26 April.
