Torin O’Brien in Rockhampton court charged with enter dwelling and commit

A vigilante who once led an anti-crime rally of 100 people through the streets to the homes of supposed criminals has allegedly broken the law.

Torin O'Brien speaking with Rockhampton police during the community rally.

A gym owner and former One Nation candidate who started a youth crime program for at risk teens to join has faced court charged with enter dwelling and commit.

Torin O’Brien, 37, became a household name after he lead a mob of 100 angry locals to the homes of alleged criminal teens in May, 2023.

The public sparked a tense stand-off with numerous police forced to protect the homes from several outraged locals trying to get inside the houses.

Torin O'Brien outside Rockhampton Police Station.

The candidate for the state seat of Rockhampton in 2020 had made a Facebook appeal for information about the identity of the alleged thieves who had broken into his sister’s home and urged locals to attend a “rally” to organise “neighbourhood watch groups”.

Mr O’Brien appeared in Rockhampton Magistrates Court on Wednesday, May 8.

He was charged with one count of enter dwelling and commit.

The offence was allegedly committed on February 2 in the North Rockhampton suburb of Kawana.

Mr O’Brien’s solicitor, Oscar Millroy, sought a four week adjournment for his client for his Legal Aid application to be processed and the brief of evidence to be provided.

One Nation Leader Pauline Hansen, Rocky's Torin O'Brien and Senator Malcolm Roberts

Magistrate Grace Kahlert adjourned Mr O’Brien’s matter to June 5.

Mr O’Brien is on bail.

He has been open about having a “troubled past” and once told this publication by the time he was 16, he was homeless, drug-addicted and was “a charged car thief”.