Brock Andrew Delinecort jailed for torture, assault and wilful damage

A 33-year-old Bundaberg man used a dog collar to humiliate and torture a woman after forcing his way into her car by smashing in the windshield.

Brock Delinecort saw a fight in the middle of the road.

The Bundaberg trial of a convicted drug dealer facing 12 charges including rape, assault, strangulation and torture, concluded with a not guilty verdict on everything but torture.

Brock Andrew Delinecort, 33, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, three counts of strangulation, three counts of rape and one count each of threatening violence, engaging in conduct to cause harm while armed, assault and torture.

He had pleaded guilty to one count of assault occasioning bodily harm and one count of wilful damage.

On Tuesday, June 13, Delinecort was sentenced to five years jail for torture.

They found him guilty on one count of torture.

Crown prosecutor Carla Ahern listed the father-of-one’s previous offending, which included jail in 2012 for trafficking dangerous drugs for alleged Bundaberg drug kingpin Danny Thomas Moran.

She told the court Delinecort had spent 1072 days in presentence custody.

Mrs Ahern described to the court “violent” offending in which Delinecort met the victim in an “isolated” area near Buxton to collect a “firearm” from the boot of her car.

Delinecort asked her to get out of the car, and when she refused and tried to drive away he jumped on the bonnet and used a torch to smash the windshield, amounting to the guilty plea for wilful damage.

The court heard the victim tried to shake Delinecort off but he climbed through a smashed window, kicked her in the ribs and hit her over the legs with the torch.

He also hit her in the head several times, which left her bleeding and with swollen eyes – amounting to the guilty plea for assault occasioning bodily harm.

During the assault Delinecort told the woman he “wanted to work (their relationship) out”.

Brock Delinecort was found guilty of torture following a trial in Bundaberg.

Over the next few hours, the complainant went into a “crazed survival mode,” which resulted in her jumping from a moving car in the hopes of escaping Delinecort.

Delinecort returned her to the car and fitted her with an electric shock dog collar.

“The complainant screamed ‘no’, but the defendant tightened it around her neck … the defendant set the controller to the highest setting,” Ms Ahern told the trial on May 30.

In what Judge Terry Gardiner called a “nasty feature of offending,” Delinecort shocked his victim over the next 10 minutes.

Mrs Ahern said Delinecort had showed a “lack of remorse” and his victim sustained “significant injuries” and “felt she was going to die”.

Judge Gardiner commented on the “unprovoked” attack and said Delinecort had “humiliated the victim”.

He accepted submissions towards Delinecort‘s troubled life, which included exposure to domestic violence, alcoholism, sexual abuse and witnessing his brother’s murder.

Delinecort was sentenced to five years jail for torture, with 914 days of presentence custody declared as time served. He was convicted and not further punished for the assault and wilful damage offences, and remanded in custody to face separate charges.