By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A HOMELESS man, unwelcome at his Narre Warren address, has been jailed for threatening to stab security staff with scissors at a supermarket in June.
Jesse Limb, 21, yelled “Oh my God!” as he was led away into the cells after receiving his eight-month sentence at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 29 August.
According to a police summary, Limb threatened to stab a security guard if he didn’t “stop following me” in a Dandenong supermarket on 8 June.
About 6.50pm, the guard called police, and was approached by Limb at the supermarket entrance.
The accused pulled scissors out of his jumper and pointed them at the victim one metre away and said: “I swear, stop following me or I’ll stab you.”
Two hours later, Limb tried to steal sunscreen and an electric toothbrush from a Chemist Warehouse in Dandenong.
When a guard asked Limb about the suspicious bulge in Limb’s jacket, the accused screamed and yelled.
Limb was chased out of the shop, yelling out a threat to stab his pursuers. He returned the items and ran away.
He then returned to Chemist Warehouse with scissors, yelling “I’m going to stab you” and kicked locked glass doors.
The court was told Limb, who claimed he had been recently bashed in a Dandenong boarding house over a drug debt, was being case managed for an intellectual disability.
He was due to become a father in several months, and had been working in Port Phillip Prison gardens since remanded in early June.
“He’s keen to demonstrate he can comply (with corrections orders) and get out to take care of his family,” Limb’s lawyer said.
Magistrate Julie O’Donnell noted Limb was a young offender with mental health issues who had been incarcerated for several months last year and had absconded from a corrections order four weeks after his release.
“It would be a risk to release him back out on a corrections order as he is unlikely to comply.”
Ms O’Donnell said she didn’t want to impose a crushing sentence and hoped he received mental health treatment before being released from prison.
Limb was jailed two months for breaching his corrections order and six months for the new offences.
