Mirani’s Ross Hunt ordered to move out of affordable housing
A Queensland man accused of making his elderly neighbours feel like prisoners, including drawing pentagrams outside their homes and tormenting a cancer patient has tried to fight his eviction.
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A Mirani man accused of harassing his elderly neighbours including tormenting a cancer patient by regularly banging on her door past midnight asking if she was dead yet has tried to fight an eviction from an affordable housing property.
Ross Hunt had lived at the Blackmur St address for about eight years and had at one time been on friendly terms with his neighbours, Mackay Magistrates Court heard.
However four women, all retirees, complained to Mackay Regional Housing Company that Mr Hunt had been harassing them including making threats to kill and they no longer felt safe in the property they share.
“Something happened and he became very very unwell (and) hasn’t been able to get well,” one of the witnesses told the court.
“We’re like prisoners made to stay behind locked doors because we’re scared of him.”
The affordable housing company applied to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal to have Hunt’s lease terminated over “objectionable behaviour”, which Hunt was fighting.
The court heard Mackay Regional Housing manages the property on the Department of Housing’s behalf as affordable housing for eligible people.
During a court hearing Hunt was given an opportunity to question each of the neighbours about their allegations that included “threatening to kill us with a crossbow or a machete” and drawing pentagrams on the concrete outside their homes.
The court heard Hunt allegedly said “they were all connected with the devil and it was (his) job to kill all devils”.
Hunt, who admitted to drawing an object, said, “It’s the Star of David, it’s not a pentagram. It’s to keep demons away”.
He repeatedly denied making threats to kill, asking the women “why are you lying”, arguing he actively avoided all the women.
One of the other woman, who the court heard was diagnosed with cancer, said Hunt banged on her door about 2.30am every day for a month and say “you’re not dead yet”.
She told the court she put up with it because she knew he was unwell and thought he would give up, he only stopped when she told him to get lost.
In response Hunt claimed all the women were “making it like I’m a psychopath”.
He alleged in court the women had “conspired against him” after he had clashed with one of the group.
“I’m not a psychopath,” he said.
Magistrate Damien Dwyer accepted the evidence given by the long term residents, finding it was “all given in a straightforward way”.
“It was corroborated in some way when I went through it all with Mr Hunt himself,” Mr Dwyer said.
Mr Dwyer said he accepted Hunt’s behaviour was objectionable and had been for some considerable time, and found it was “very serious behaviour” against elderly ladies.
The periodic lease was terminated and Hunt was given until September 18 to move. It he fails to do so a warrant has been ordered.
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