Jay Glancy: DV abuser’s terrifying countdown to murder

A southeast Queensland man has been sentenced to prison for his horrific abuse of a woman, in which he choked and headbutted her, then told her “I have to murder you... or you’ll tell people I hit you”.

The inexplicable terror of a man sitting on her chest and telling her to count to three as he put his hands around her throat caused a Logan woman to go into shock and vomit over herself, the Beenleigh District Court heard on Thursday.

“I have to murder you,” convicted criminal Jay Glancy, 26, said to the victim, as read by Judge Craig Chowdhury.

“I have to do it now or you’ll tell people I hit you.

“Count to three, say ‘three, two, one …’.”

The horrific example of domestic violence occurred at a Marsden home on February 12, 2020.

According to the schedule of facts as tendered to the court, the woman had locked all of her windows and doors before falling asleep on her couch the night before.

She woke to find Glancy sleeping on a mattress beside her.

Domestic violence abuser Jay Glancy, originally from Hobart, will be held in a correctional facility until at least November, when he will be eligible for parole.

As the two spoke, Glancy noticed a text message notification appear on the woman’s phone and he became enraged, accusing her of sleeping around.

He stormed off, down the hallway, and the woman followed him, pleading for him to calm down.

Glancy turned around, grabbed the woman by the throat, and shoved her against the wall, lifting her so her feet were no longer touching the ground and she could not breathe.

He headbutted her in the face so severely the wall behind her broke, kneed her in the ribs as she fell to the floor, then kicked out her ankles and sat on her chest.

It is then Glancy threatened to murder the woman, lest she reveal the extent of his violence to police.

The woman went into shock and vomited over herself.

She was unable to move due to the pain, but Glancy threw her in a cold shower, fully clothed, and told her to “pull yourself together”.

The court further heard that when the woman managed to escape onto the street Glancy followed her and said, “I’ll stab you in the street to stop you crying”.

Glancy finally fled the scene when he heard police sirens.

Glancy appeared at the Beenleigh Courthouse on Thursday, June 3.

A doctor examined the woman 10 hours after the incident and noted she had mild swelling to the face and forehead, a scratch on the face and tenderness to the abdomen.

Glancy’s lawyer noted the doctor’s report said the woman’s neck was “okay”.

The woman attended the Beenleigh police station on February 15, 2020 and during her formal interview Glancy called her phone.

Police answered to Glancy calling the woman a “slut” and “maggot” and demanding to know her whereabouts.

Glancy was arrested shortly thereafter and taken into presentence custody at the Borallan Correctional Centre.

According to Glancy’s lawyer, he was attacked by inmates on at least three occasions and had to be transferred to Woodford Correctional Centre, where he was also king hit, causing a broken eye socket.

The court heard Glancy has been attacked several times in prison, at one point suffering a broken eye socket.

The court heard Glancy grew up in Hobart, Tasmania where he lost both of his brothers at a young age and became addicted to methamphetamines.

The Crown Prosecutor tendered 24 pages of criminal history to the court, including several previous convictions of domestic violence, drug and property offences.

He was serving two suspended prison sentences at the time of the offending.

Glancy pleaded guilty to three breaches of a domestic violence protection order, one count of assault occasioning bodily harm, one count of assault occasioning bodily harm while armed or in company, one count of choking within a domestic violence relationship, and one count of threatening violence.

Judge Chowdhury said Glancy’s case was indicative of a real problem with domestic violence in the community.

“It seems to be getting worse,” he said.

Glancy was sentenced to two years imprisonment and will be eligible for parole on November 7 this year.