William Dean Fox sentenced for DV breach and wilful damage

A young man has learnt his fate for an abusive tirade and assault, continuing to shout at the woman in front of the police there to charge him.

William Dean Fox was sentenced in Bowen Magistrates Court on June 11, 2024.

A Bowen man hit a woman as she tried to separate a fight with his brother before banging his head and fists on a plaster wall.

William Dean Fox, 23, was at an address in Bowen on March 14 when an altercation with his brother kicked off.

At the address was a woman who tried to separate him and his brother when the fight degenerated.

Prosecutor sergeant Emma Myors told the court Fox had yelled at her when she got in the middle and had struck her.

She said Fox “striked the plaster of the wall with his head and fists” in the woman’s room, while she watched on, which had left ‘serious’ damage.

She also told the court Fox had continued to yell at her even after police had arrived.

Fox was also pleading guilty before the Proserpine Magistrates Court to breaching his bail conditions, when he failed to report to corrective services as well as failing to appear in court.

Richards Rewald Lawyers solicitor Cleo Rewald told the court Fox was still a young man and that he had limited history.

She said Fox did not remember most of what he said to the woman, and that the reason he had failed to report later on after being arrested was only because he had forgotten the court date as he was in the middle of moving to his aunt’s.

She told magistrate Michelle Howard he would benefit from help in the community and asked her to consider probation over a custodial sentence.

Ms Howard told Fox she would grant him probation, but that it would only work if he was “committed to the process”.

He was sentenced to six months probation.

Convictions were not recorded.