Anthony Tebb: Slacks Creek truckie in court for bashing men
A car sideswiped by a Logan truckie’s wife followed her home to get her details. When they arrived, this man produced a wrench and stalked them through the suburbs of Logan until he found them hiding in a park.
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In scenes reminiscent of Steven Spielberg’s 1971 breakout film Duel, a truckie has stalked a car containing four passengers, one of them a child, through the suburbs of Logan, wrench in hand and violence in mind, after they followed his wife home to get her details following an accident.
When he found them hiding in a park, he clubbed one victim in the head so hard he immediately crumpled to the ground, and threw the wrench into the back of another with such force the victim felt “pins and needles” in his legs.
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Slacks Creek truck driver Anthony Randall Tebb, 42, was charged with three offences following last May’s sickening assault, including two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm while armed and one count of wilful damage.
Beenleigh Magistrates Court yesterday heard the assault was precipitated by a minor road incident in the Logan region involving the man’s wife and the other car.
According to police prosecutor Tim Wise, Tebb’s wife performed a “manoeuvre” which “evoked a response” from the other car and the two vehicle became locked in a dangerous game of chicken.
Tebb’s wife drove behind the other vehicle “in a provocative way” before overtaking them while clipping their car.
When she made no indication of stopping, the other car followed her home with the intention of getting her details.
However, Tebb’s wife, believing herself to be in danger, phoned ahead to alert her husband, who emerged enraged from his home clutching a large wrench which he used to smash the sunroof of the pursuing car while berating its occupants with “appalling language”.
The driver and passengers fled in fear and took refuge in a nearby Slacks Creek park.
However, their terrifying ordeal had only just begun – Tebb climbed in his own vehicle, still armed with the wrench, and started combing the local streets to exact his revenge upon the hapless occupants of the other vehicle.
He found them within 15 minutes.
Once the first victim had been effectively knocked unconscious, the second victim, the driver, rushed to his aid, only to receive the wrench straight to his spine for his troubles.
Tebb was interviewed by police shortly afterwards and made full admissions.
The court heard Tebb suffers PTSD, anxiety and depression and is “heavily medicated” to treat these conditions.
Magistrate Brian Kilmartin denounced Tebb’s conduct as “outrageous and gratuitous”.
“It’s caused this court considerable alarm the way you’ve gone about things,” Mr Kilmartin said.
“There was an incident on the road, they wanted to obtain identifying particulars, there’s nothing unreasonable about that.
“They fled to the park to try and hide and you took it upon yourself to hunt down the car.”
Mr Kilmartin sentenced Tebb to six months’ jail with immediate court-ordered parole and 18 months’ probation.
He was also ordered to pay each victim $500 compensation.
Convictions were recorded.