By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A DRUG addict is facing jail after pleading guilty to running down his dad in a truck, breaking into his parents’ holiday house and speeding at 98km/h on Bald Hill Road, Pakenham.
The 35-year-old father of two, when arrested on 2 June, told police that he was going to “smash” his father’s head in with a golf club, Dandenong Magistrates’ Court was told.
“You’ll be charging me with murder. I’m going to f***ing kill him,” the man allegedly told police.
He was homeless at the time when he arrived at his parents’ Narre Warren North home unannounced three times, and verbally abused family members in late May, the court heard on 27 June.
Each time he was in breach of intervention orders protecting his family.
On the third occasion, the “agitated” and “emotional” man yelled at his mother: “You’re dead, c***” due to her packing up his belongings after finding a bag of his marijuana clippings.
The man was asked to leave, but wandered into the parents’ backyard, picked up a steel bar and threatened to smash his father’s truck, police prosecutor Senior Constable Chris Capuano told the court.
After his father implored him to stop, the man dropped the bar and drove the vehicle at his father. The truck struck a container, which was pushed onto the father’s leg, trapping him.
The man told his father, who had dropped to the ground, to “stop faking the injury”, Sen Const Capuano said.
The man left the scene, reversing a vehicle out the driveway at a fast speed and almost colliding with a fence.
On 31 May, the accused was seen driving a stolen blue Commodore station wagon at a fast speed through the Bald Hill and Racecourse roads roundabout in Pakenham.
Shortly after, at 1.43am, police recorded his 98 km/h speed in the 60 km/h zone.
The man told police he had borrowed the car from a friend at a Ferntree Gully address – where the car was reported stolen two days earlier.
He admitted he’d attached stolen number plates and was found with a 400ml container that was one-third full of “green vegetable matter”.
The man’s lawyer said there were “serious mental issues at play”, including bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression along with an addiction to ice and cannabis.
When released from custody, a friend prepared to support the man who had work lined up.
The man pleaded guilty after magistrate Jack Vandersteen declined to give a sentence indication because of the high level of violence and threats.
Mr Vandersteen said the man faced a jail term with either a parole term or a community corrections order.
He adjourned sentencing until 28 August, pending a psychological report on the accused.
