Most horrific things said by SEQ criminals revealed
“Mummy is going to be sleeping for good tonight” — some of the bone-chilling words to be uttered from the mouths of criminals have been heard before stunned courts. Here are some of their terrifying statements.
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Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me.
Well, according to crime experts, words can and do cause great harm.
Griffith University psychology and criminology expert, Professor Grant Devilly, said words could have a lasting effect on victims involved in violent or threatening situations.
“When an event like that occurs it can actually continue to be a current event in their (the victim’s) mind,’’ Professor Devilly said.
“There is a percentage that get post traumatic stress disorder, a percentage that get depression, and a percentage that get anxiety.’’
Southeast Queensland courts have been told of bone-chilling statements made by offenders.
Here are the faces behind some of the most shocking words spoken in the past 12 months.
NO CONVICTION RECORDED:
JOSH NIKKOLAS LAKATANI
The Sunnybank Hills father told a court alcohol was now a “big no-go” for him after a shocking assault on a woman in which he tried to push her out of a moving car while drunk.
Prosecutor Sergeant Kellie Cullen said Lakatani had been with a woman at the Imperial Hotel in Beenleigh in April when Lakatani called the woman a “f***ing sloppy fat b**ch”.
After she left Lakatani called her, saying “get your arse back here and pick me up … or I’m going to burn the house down”.
Sergeant Cullen said Lakatani then punched the woman multiple times in the chest while she was still driving.
Magistrate Pamela Dowse said she took into account the “ugly, belittling’’ nature of the matter in sentencing him to 12 months’ probation.
No conviction was recorded.
VICKIE MAREE BARRETT
Woombye woman, Vickie Maree Barrett, ambushed a teenager in his car before attempting to hit him with a bottle full of alcohol and threatening to kill him.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Nick Nitschke said the 18-year-old male victim, unknown to Barrett, was driving at Coes Creek in November, 2021 when he saw Barrett standing in the middle of the road.
“He has then heard the passenger door open and the defendant entered the side of his vehicle and sat down,” Sergeant Nitschke said.
The teenager asked several times for her to leave the vehicle but Barrett refused and demanded he drive, threatening him.
She lifted a bottle of alcohol above her head stating: “You have to drive now or I will hit you with it. Shut up or I will kill you.”
Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist ordered her to pay for damage to the car plus a $1000 fine.
No conviction was recorded.
CONVICTION RECORDED
MATTHEW VILIAMU
A respected former teacher at Hills International College in Jimboomba, 52-year-old Matthew Viliamu was sentenced after threatening to kill his wife by pushing a loaded Glock pistol into her mouth.
The court heard the father of three got into a fight with her in June, 2020 after she admitted to engaging in sexual activity with a co-worker.
“You said to the complainant: ‘Look at what you’ve done to the family. You don’t deserve to live!’” Beenleigh District Court Judge Craig Chowdhury said.
“You finished loading the Glock and moved over to the complainant, pulled her hair and held a gun to her head.
“You disgracefully put the gun in her mouth, imitating oral sex, while threatening her and berating her.’’
Viliamu was sentenced to 12 months’ jail with an immediate parole release date.
IPSWICH ASYLUM SEEKER
An Ipswich man faced court for an “insidious” series of domestic violence offences against a pregnant woman he “effectively held hostage”.
A court heard most of the offences occurred throughout 2018.
After the victim confronted the man for staring at another woman in public he slapped her.
The woman hid in the bathroom. The man called her a “b**ch” and said she was “born evil and disgusting”.
She eventually moved into crisis accommodation, and he called her, saying “f*** you and f*** your mum b**ch”.
The court heard he further threatened to cut her head off.
Magistrate Kinsella noted the Iranian asylum seeker would very likely be deported.
The man was sentenced to 232 days’ jail with immediate parole release.
JAYDEN LLEWELLYN MORETON
A 24 year-old Kangaroo Point man punched his then pregnant partner in the face, after she raised her fists to defend herself in the bedroom.
Jayden Llwellyn Morton faced Beenleigh District Court on July 28, 2022, and pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm, having punched the woman in the lip at Woodridge on October 4, 2020.
Crown prosecutor Alex Vanenn said that on the date of offending, Morton was leaning over his former partner on the bed.
The woman, 19 at the time and 30 weeks pregnant, was treated for a bruised lip.
In handing down the sentence, Judge Craig Chowdhury quoted what Morton said to his former partner before striking her: “If you’re gonna raise your fists, be prepared to use them”.
Judge Chowdhury sentenced Mr Morton to six months imprisonment with parole after serving one day.
Judge Chowdhury deemed the one day he spent in custody time served under the sentence.
SIMONE MAY QUILL
The Nambour woman avoided jail time after stabbing her neighbour and threatening to cut his throat for leaving soil on a footpath.
Quill’s neighbour was moving houses when she started arguing with him about soil that was spread across the front lawn.
She ran down the staircase to confront the man, 55, while armed with a paring knife.
“(Quill) stabbed the complainant in the upper left arm as she yelled ‘I’ll f***g stab you c***’,” Crown Prosecutor Joana Dias said.
“‘It should be your f***g throat c*** … next time it will be your throat’.’’
Ms Dias said Quill lunged and attempted to stab the victim a further three to four times.
She was given a 18-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.
A conviction was recorded for the wounding charge.
BRENDAN RONALD FRANK
The Maroochydore 31-year-old repeatedly punched, kicked and stomped a former flatmate's head in a horrific assault over money in June, 2021, and spat at a Sunshine Plaza security guard.
Police prosecutor Erica Zammit said the victim was on the ground in the foetal position while Frank yelled: “You’re a dog and I’m going to kill you”.
The court heard Frank broke into the victim’s car and stole $600 before attacking the man.
He then pushed the security guard and spat towards him.
Frank was convicted and sentenced to nine months’ jail, suspended for 18 months after serving two months in prison.
JASON LEIGH FITZSIMON
The Maroochydore man, 41, viciously assaulting a woman, punching her in the head 30 times at a Bavarian restaurant in July, 2019 following an argument.
Fitzsimon grabbed the woman’s hair while they were driving home, shook her head and shouted: “Shut up b**ch”. He also called her a “psychotic b**ch”.
Fitzsimon was sentenced to 18 months’ prison, suspended after six months.
Convictions were recorded.
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM MORTENSEN
The Springfield Lakes father, 27, assaulted his sister because she disturbed him when he was tired.
A court heard he had returned home from work on May 16, 2022, when a heated argument broke out between him and his sister, 32.
The court heard he had previously chased his sister with a box cutting knife and punched her in the jaw, shouting: “I’m going to stab her”.
The court heard on this occasion, May 16, Mortensen chased his sister into the front yard and punched her in the jaw, causing her to fall to the ground.
He was sentenced to three months’ jail, wholly suspended for 18 months.
A conviction was recorded.
KHOA HOANG LAM
The Gold Coast man, 27, walked free from court after standing over his friend of 11 years, threatening to stab him with a knife and asking if he wanted to die.
The district court heard Lam refused to let his friend leave his Inala home, in January 2019, asking him: “Do you want me to kill you?”.
The victim, who had been friends with Lam since school replied: “If you are going to kill me, just kill me now”.
The unprovoked ordeal lasted more than three hours, during which Lam punched the victim in the forehead and threatened him with a 15cm flick knife.
Judge Kent sentenced Lam to a wholly suspended one-year jail term for the assault, and a suspended three months’ jail term for the threaten violence, to be served concurrently.
STEVEN RODNEY SMITH
The Goodna man, 42, faced court after threatening to blow up his own mother and holding her down as she tried to escape their home in February, 2022 after his mother dropped a strainer from the kitchen bench.
An aggravated Smith approached his mother and stepfather, while holding a barbecue gas bottle in one hand and a cigarette lighter in the other.
The court heard he twisted the top of the bottle open before chasing his mother and forcing her to the ground.
He repeatedly called her a “useless ‘f***g c***” and held her on the ground before his stepfather demanded he release her.
Smith was sentenced to 12 months’ jail, suspended for 18 months, for serious assault.
He received 18 months’ probation for threatening violence and was ordered to submit to psychological assessment and treatment.
JAE DAMON COOK
The Sunshine Coast resident, who claimed he was part of a gang, pointed a sawn-off shotgun at a man, a court heard.
Cook and a co-accused went to a Mount Coolum home where they asked to speak to the victim, who was not there at the time.
The court heard Cook was hiding a sawn-off shotgun in his clothes.
While the pair waited for the victim, Cook pointed the gun in the direction of two other men who were also present and said: “Where’s my phone? You’ve got 24 hours. You can’t hide.”
He was sentenced to five years’ jail and was eligible for parole on December 12.
CHRISTINE JOY GORELL
Mooloolaba’s Christine Joy Gorell was sentenced after hurling threats and abuse to her 80-year-old neighbour in order to get her to move units.
The court heard Gorell abused the neighbour over a 20-month period between February, 2020 and November last year, telling her she was going to push her until she “snapped”.
Police prosecutor Mark Burrell said Gorell, 61, would wait outside her victim’s unit and call her a c*** and a b**ch.
“She said: ‘I hope you fall over and break your hip’,” police prosecutor Senior Constable Burrell said.
“I want you dead. Why don’t you just die so a younger person can get your unit.”
Gorell was sentenced to 18 months’ jail with immediate parole release.
SLACKS CREEK FATHER
A father who threatened to kill a woman and violently dragged her across the floor of a unit was jailed after an “uncontrollable rage” at her home.
The court heard the father of four went to his ex-partner’s home in Slacks Creek in December last year before going on a violent rampage, smashing crockery, dishes, throwing clothing and yelling at the woman.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Kay told the court the man said: “I’ll punch your head in, I’ll kill you, you f***g s***”.
The court heard the man then grabbed the woman by her arms and dragged her across the floor of her unit, continuing to verbally abuse her before stealing her bank card.
The man was convicted and received three months’ jail, suspended for 12 months, for one count of dangerous driving and was disqualified from driving for six months.
He also received three months’ jail for six counts of contravention of domestic violence orders, suspended for 12 months.
RHYS ANDREW ARCHER
The court heard a “very drunk and struggling” Rhys Andrew Archer arrived at his ex-girlfriend’s home in Redbank in December, 2020 armed with a razor blade before taking a knife from the kitchen.
He verbally abused the woman and her new partner, calling them “bush pigs”, “bloody dogs” and “c****”.
Archer demanded to know where his ex-girlfriend’s new partner lived and said: “If you don’t tell me I will go to the house and the first person to open the door I will stab them.”
He also punched his ex in the face.
Disturbingly, he told a child at the residence, “Mummy is going to be sleeping for good tonight”.
Archer was convicted and sentenced to two years’ jail with immediate parole.
KEIRAN MATTHEW POYNTON
Logan’s Keiran Matthew Poynton was sentenced for strangling his partner because he believed she was secretly seeing another person.
A court heard the charges related to a series of events which took place on January 23, 2022 after Poynton woke up in an “agitated mood”.
Crown prosecutor Ming Gu said Poynton called his victim a “ganger”, asking her: “Who are you seeing? Who is it?”
The court heard Poynton then grabbed the woman by the neck and pinned her against a wall, squeezing her throat until she felt something “click”.
Poynton then picked up what she thought was a screwdriver, telling her if she called the police: “I’ll f***ing kill you”.
Beenleigh District Court Judge Craig Chowdhury sentenced Poynton to a total of two years’ jail, with immediate parole release.
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