Munno Para stabbing: Courts allow accused to live alongside person protected from him

The teen who allegedly stabbed a longtime nemesis at a shopping centre has been granted highly unusual bail conditions. Here’s why a magistrate made that call.

The unusual bail conditions granted to a teenage alleged stabber have continued with him now allowed to live in the same home as a person who is protected from him.

Jasper Donovan Kidd, 18, was on Monday granted a broad form of bail after spending the weekend on remand because of concerns about his vulnerability behind bars.

Magistrate Mark Semmens was scathing of Mr Kidd’s alleged decision to bring a knife and capsicum spray to a public place in the first place, but was swayed by submissions that he had been bullied for years by the young man he is charged with stabbing.

In the Elizabeth Magistrates Court on Monday, Mr Semmens made the unusual decision to allow him on the broad form of bail prior to changing him over to home detention.

The court on Thursday heard while Mr Kidd’s bail would be tightened, he would be granted permission to live alongside a person with whom he was previously banned, by a court, from living.

Alleged Munno Para stabber Jasper Donavon Kidd and his mother leave court. Picture: Brinley Duggan

“Usually I would never bail somebody with a restraining order into the same house where the other person is living,” Mr Semmens told the court.

“It just doesn’t happen.

“But it’s not a domestic violence situation … I think it’s your best protection as well because you’re very vulnerable in custody”.

Earlier in the week the first police allegations against Mr Kidd were detailed to the court.

A prosecutor told Mr Semmens that Mr Kidd allegedly sprayed Ebony Freeman with pepper spray at the Munno Para Shopping Centre just after lunchtime on Friday.

Mr Kidd then, the court heard, allegedly got into a fight with Ms Freeman’s boyfriend, Kye Furner.

The prosecutor told the court Mr Furner was “winning” the fight before Mr Kidd allegedly stabbed him four times in the stomach.

Police and paramedics tend to alleged stabbing victim Kye Furner. Picture: 7NEWS

Mr Kidd was charged with aggravated assault with a weapon and aggravated causing harm with intent.

Mr Furner was treated at the shops by bystanders and paramedics before being taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

However, the court was told by duty solicitor Rebecca Andreason, for Mr Kidd, the teen was allegedly being followed by Mr Furner and Ms Freeman before the fight broke out.

Ms Andreason told the court the fight had allegedly been pre-empted by years of torment and bullying of Mr Kidd by Mr Furner and his friends.

The court heard Mr Kidd was targeted because of intellectual disabilities and the alleged stabbing was a result of him snapping after years of abuse.

“(Mr Kidd) has been abused for years for no reason other than that he is young and vulnerable,” Ms Andreason said.

Mr Kidd will next face court in May.