Adam Bryan Kunde pleaded guilty to serious assault of a corrective services officer

First, he threw a toilet roll at a guard. When it didn’t land, a factory cleaner turned Queensland prisoner took a milk bottle filled with faeces and fired.

Maryborough Correctional Centre.

A Maryborough Correctional Centre prisoner who threw a milk bottle filled with his faeces and urine in it, splashing a corrective services officer in the face, has been sentenced.

Adam Bryan Kunde, 34, pleaded guilty in Maryborough District Court to serious assault of a corrective services officer.

The court heard Kunde was a prisoner at Maryborough Correctional Centre at the time of the crime.

Kunde had approached a corrective services officer on the morning of the offence and demanded his playing cards from his property.

He first threw a toilet roll at the officer, which didn’t hit him, before the officer had a chance to respond to him, the court was told.

The officer then turned to call for assistance and Kunde took a one litre milk container filled with urine and faeces and threw it, striking the officer on his arm and causing it to splash onto his clothing and on his face.

The officer then left the court heard, and other guards attended to Kunde while the officer had to undergo a blood test because of the risk of infection which later came back negative.

When approached by police in January, 2023, Kunde declined to participate in an interview regarding the attack which was captured on CCTV, the court was told.

Inside Maryborough Correctional Centre.

Judge Carl Heaton said Kunde’s offending had been “appalling”.

He said corrective services officers had the difficult job of maintaining good order and ensuring the safety of all prisoners.

“The nature of their work places them at risk of violence every day that they go to work.

“This offending is particularly disgusting in that you threw fecal matter and urine over the officer.

“The offending, given those circumstances, calls for a period of actual custody to deter you and to denounce the conduct and to hopefully achieve some sense of protection of the corrective services officers who go about this work.”

Judge Heaton said Kunde’s criminal history included four offences of assault or obstructing police, which was of concern, as well as one prior conviction for assaulting a corrective services officer.

The prior assault on a corrective services officer involved throwing a cup of hot water in the face of the officer, Judge Heaton said, and then punching him, causing bruises and burns.

The court heard Kunde had attended school at Caboolture to Year 9 and had found employment as a labourer and a factory cleaner, which was work he could return to when he was released.

It was likely Kunde suffered from undiagnosed mental health issues, the court heard, and Judge Heaton urged him to get help to address those issues.

“Regrettably you do not enjoy the benefit of much in the way of family support, so that upon your release the responsibility will be yours to take stock of your life and make choices that will hopefully provide a future that is brighter for you than the past seems to have been.”

Kunde was sentenced to 12 months in prison, to be released on parole after serving three months.

Time he had already spent in custody was declared as time served.

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