Dylan Thomas Desmond Davis pleads guilty to assault, supplying cocaine and GHB
A heavily tattooed drug addict who threatened to taser a woman’s dog and supplied cocaine, GHB and marijuana while on bail has turned his life around.
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A heavily tattooed drug addict threatened to taser a woman’s dog during a violent backyard attack and while on bail for assault supplied cocaine, GHB and marijuana.
But 18 months later Judge Deborah Richards commended the 27 year old on how much he had changed his life for the better.
“The tattoos aren’t going to help … with job seeking so you’re probably need to save up and try and get rid of some of those,” Judge Richards told Dylan Thomas Desmond Davis.
Mackay District Court heard he was now drug free and multiple negative drug tests were tendered as proof – he also had a plan in place that focused on his rehabilitation.
The offending occurred in December 2022 and February 2023.
The court heard Davis had been with a mate who had been trying to return some property, and there was a plan in place to go to the person’s home, sneak around the back and throw it through a bedroom window.
However someone had been at the Slade Point home and as a result Davis had pulled out a taser and his mate had pulled out a star picket, prompting the woman to arm herself with a hockey stick for protection.
The court heard Davis’s mate had launched a brutal assault on the woman with the star picket – Davis was not involved in the physical clash but he did threaten to taser her dog.
Crown prosecutor Rana Aldas said Davis’s presence at the home also added to the victim’s fear and intimidation.
About two months after this incident while on bail, Davis supplied drugs eight times – the drugs included marijuana, GHB and cocaine.
The court heard when police raided his property he was caught with an aggravated quantity of THC, which is more than two grams, as well as various steroids.
Davis pleaded guilty to myriad offences including assault while armed and in company, and multiple counts of supplying and possessing dangerous drugs.
Defence barrister Scott McLennan said his client had longstanding issues with mental health and as a result had long standing issues with drug abuse, but had since made tremendous strides in terms of his rehabilitation.
This included spending a total of five months in residential rehab centres over two stints, having a mental health care plan and taking medication, as well as ongoing relapse prevention care plans.
Mr McLennan said the multiple negative drug screens showed he was no longer using drugs.
The court heard he had found work as a furniture removalist and had been able to save $1000 to offer as compensation to the victim.
Davis was also playing football, going to the gym and volunteering at a local op shop.
Mr McLennan said his client had only brought the taser to the home because he had heard “there was a large and aggressive dog at the premises”.
“If they’d been able to sneak the bag back in the bedroom, they would have just left,” Mr McLennan said.
Judge Richards accepted this was Davis first entry for violence but that he had quite and extensive drug history for a 27 year old dating back to when he was 18 when he was busted supplying large quantities of drugs.
Judge Richards noted the “significant inroads” to his terrible drug addiction and said the candid character reference from his mother was particularly impressive.
“My heart goes out to her because she’s really been hauled over the coals by you … and yet she’s still here supporting you,” Judge Richards said.
“You’re very lucky … to have someone like her in your life.
“She can see a real change in you and she seems to believe that maybe this time might be the time that you do change your life.”
Judge Richards told him “you’ve made life so hard for yourself and now you’ve got all these convictions.”
“I think you deserve a chance to continue going the way you’re going,” she said.
David was jailed for two years with immediate parole and convictions were recorded.
He was warned he would be drug tested on parole and “one dirty test” could send him back to jail. He was ordered to pay $1000 compensation.
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