Birkdale man chased 400 metres up Logan Rd for peeing on police vehicle

A young man who urinated on a police vehicle in an attempt at ‘bravado’ and payback has been urged to ‘grow up’ by a magistrate after his third drink-drive offence.

A young man chased 400 metres down a major southeast Queensland road after he urinated on a police car has been given a custodial sentence following his third drink-drive offence.

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Appearing at the Cleveland Magistrates Court on Tuesday Tiernan Dean, 22, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a motor vehicle while over the general alcohol limit but not the middle alcohol limit, obstructing a police officer, urinating in a public place and wilful damage of police property.

The court heard Birkdale man Dean was intercepted by police at a Wishart car park on September 29 last year when tests would confirm he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.078 per cent.

On probation at the time for a similar offence, the court was told, it would be his third instance of drink-driving.

But it would be his admitted urge for payback that prompted a 400m foot chase by police down Logan Road.

Tiernan Dean. Picture: Facebook

A police prosecutor said Dean, who works in civil engineering, walked out the front door of the Upper Mount Gravatt Police Station at 12.40am on September 30 and proceeded to urinate onto the bonnet of a police vehicle from a facing balcony.

Observed by officers on CCTV Dean fled to a nearby shopping centre and would only be spoken to by police at 11.20am in Cleveland, where he told officers he had no recollection of the incident.

The defence solicitor said her client worked up to 55 hours a week at a civil engineering company, didn’t drink too often but when he did “could get a little out of control” and had an alcohol interlocking device on his vehicle from previous offending which drew the attention of police.

Magistrate Deborah Vasta said the defendant’s “disgusting” act was either a reflection of a “really bad attitude to police” or an attempt to get back at the officers, to which Dean agreed.

Intercepted by police with mates in his vehicle, the defendant said officers targeted him because of his previous drink-driving offences and “ridiculously” suggested his more intoxicated mates drive off.

“The mates that the officers asked to drive were absolutely wasted as and they (the officers) knew that,” Dean said.

Despite that, the defendant agreed his behaviour could not be excused.

Dean was sentenced to one month imprisonment wholly suspended for nine months and disqualified from driving for six months.

A conviction was recorded.