Miles man sentenced in Dalby Magistrates Court for harassing his ex-girlfriend and her new partner

A Miles man has fronted the Dalby Magistrates Court after months of threats towards his ex-partner and her new boyfriend. Find out more

A Miles man has been sentenced for breaching a domestic violence order and breaching bail by harassing his ex-girlfriend and her new partner.

A jealous Miles man has landed himself in prison after months of tormenting his ex and her new partner.

The 56-year-old appeared in the Dalby Magistrates Court over AVL on Thursday pleading guilty to four counts of breaching a domestic violence order and two counts of breaching bail.

The offending took place between January 28 and October 29 with four separate breaches of a domestic violence order made on April 19 2023.

The court was told the man had been dating the aggrieved for nine years when he returned home one day to find her gone and moved on with another man.

He then reportedly began texting her to come home before the messages took a threatening turn.

Magistrate Kathleen Payne read out a number of the text messages which included ‘don’t bother coming home you junkie s--t keep f--king other c--ts’, and ‘answer the f--king phone or I'll drag you out by your hair’.

A week later the man went to the house of ex-partner’s new boyfriend, demanding she come outside before he was turned away, constituting the second breach of the order.

In May, the man was driving along Miles St, Miles when he saw the aggrieved and her new partner, quickly over taking their vehicle and brake checking them, causing them to stop suddenly.

The man then reportedly got out of his vehicle and smacked their car with his hand before they drove to the Miles police station and reported the attack.

The offending continued through to October where the man began texting the victim’s new partner with threats to assault, threats of a bounty on his life, threats to his family and threats to take him on a ‘boot ride’.

Ms Payne said the aggrieved had every right to leave a relationship without being threatened and described the offending as “highly cowardly and immature conduct”.

When sentencing Ms Payne took into account the serious nature of the offending as well as the man’s “serious criminal history” which included stalking and using a phone to menace and harass charges dating back as far as 2010.

Ms Payne declared the 242 days the man had been in prison as time served and granted him immediate parole.

A conviction was recorded.