Redcliffe dad sentenced after violent attack with a baseball bat
A father with a history of violent behaviour has faced court after smashing up a house and fence with a baseball bat north of Brisbane.
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A 47-year-old father who smashed up a fence and house with a baseball bat has been lucky to escape jail.
Scott Damian Forrester pleaded guilty to wilful damage in Redcliffe Magistrates Court today.
The court head Forrester, of Redcliffe, attended a home at Woody Point at about 5.30pm on March 17 and picked up a baseball bat out of the yard.
He then struck the fence a number of times and was heard by a witness yelling “I told you not to call the f***ing cops”.
Forrester also damaged the plasterboard on the front of the house.
Police found him a short time later in a car parked at Scarborough.
As he was being arrested Forrester told police he had done it as the victim owed him money.
Magistrate Mark Bucknall said Forrester had a concerning pattern for violent behaviour in his four-page history.
The court head Forrester had sentenced in the District Court in April 2011 for grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning bodily harm and a wilful damage charge.
Magistrate Bucknall said it was “outrageous behaviour”.
He was sentenced to nine months imprisonment but was granted immediate parole.