Serial Geelong stalker arrested again days after most recent prison release
One of Geelong’s most disturbed serial predators was released from prison for a fourth time only to again stalk a victim within days, it will be alleged.
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One of Geelong’s most disturbed predators was released from prison last month for a fourth time only to again stalk a victim within days, it will be alleged.
The serial stalker, who this masthead has chosen not to name for legal reasons, was released from jail on March 31 just over four months after being sentenced to almost a year for terrorising a young Geelong mother.
He has a lengthy and violent criminal history of stalking, threats and ignoring intervention orders and has been likened to “Dirty John” – the US conman and stalker, John Meehan, on whom a TV and podcast series was based.
The Geelong Advertiser can reveal his most recent victim was placed in a police safe-house after he walked from jail on March 31, such was the concern he would try and locate her.
Within a fortnight he was back behind bars – his fifth stint for stalking, threats and ignoring intervention orders.
He served an eight year sentence in 2013 for serious and relevant stalking offences including threatening another woman with a shotgun and shooting at her sister’s house and a friend.
The bullets missed her and her family or friends by just centimetres in all three attacks.
The man was arrested by detectives last week and made no application for bail in the Geelong Magistrates Court on April 14.
He is accused of 16 charges including stalking and breaches of a lifetime intervention order in place to protect the woman.
The same thing occurred when he was released from prison last year, on Anzac Day, for stalking the victim.
He took less than 24 hours to try and locate her on that occasion before his arrest on May 3.
He pleaded guilty to 15 charges for that offending in November.
Magistrate Peter Mellas told the court at the time his proclivity and pattern of behaviour “to harm and hurt” was worrying.
“Very concerning is the extent and the way you went about trying to maintain some sort of control and your influence over the victim, even when in prison,” he said.
He will appear in a Geelong court next month, on May 5.
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