Cleveland man taunts, follows and attacks couple after found ‘waving penis around like garden hose’

A Brisbane bayside man has appeared in court for obstructing police after a drunken incident. But it’s not the first time he’s been in trouble with the law, after an earlier public confrontation in which he was ‘waving his penis around like a garden hose’.

A court has heard a drunk insurance manager, recently arrested for obstructing police, was in 2018 found “waving his penis around like a garden hose” by an elderly couple who he subsequently followed, taunted and assaulted when a request was made for him to use nearby toilet facilities.

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Appearing via video link from jail at the Cleveland Magistrates Court on Friday Keith Millar, 40, pleaded guilty to a string of charges including obstruct police officer and contravene direction of police.

The court heard Cleveland man Millar’s latest offending included refusing to provide his name to police during a drunken June 4 incident in Cleveland, when he dared police to arrest him and proceeded to deliberately fall over, risking injury to the officers, when they obliged him.

The court was told once at the police station Millar asked an officer about the wellbeing of the officer’s children after “getting in his face”; this was challenged by the defendant who said he had been inquiring about his own children.

It was further revealed at court that Millar, a Scottish national with permanent residency in Australia, was a person of interest to the Australian Border Force and may be deported.

But it was the defendant’s attack on an elderly couple in 2018 that prompted acting magistrate Leanne Scoines to say the father of four had a history of targeting vulnerable individuals less able to defend themselves.

The court heard Millar was observed by a couple in their seventies while he was urinating on a bush and “waving his penis around like a garden hose” at a public park between the Cleveland Sands Hotel and the Cleveland Library at around 7.30pm on March 28 in 2018.

When asked by the man in his seventies to use public facilities some metres away an “irate” Millar followed and taunted the couple for 500 metres, jumping in front of them and calling the man an “old c**t”.

The court heard the ugly incident culminated at the intersection of Waterloo and Middle streets when Millar grabbed the man by the collar and punched him four times in the chest.

The court was told the defendant was sentenced at Cleveland Magistrates Court on July 10 in 2018 to four months’ imprisonment wholly suspended over 18 months and was placed on 15 months’ probation for the serious assault on a person over 60 years of age.

Defence solicitor Stephanie Tsimos said her client worked as a manager in the insurance industry, had a significant problem with alcohol abuse which had persisted from 2018 to his latest offending, but had been “woken up” during his first stint in prison for other offences.

Having served 51 days in custody Millar had a conviction recorded for obstructing police on June 4 and not further punished.

Millar was also sentenced to two months’ jail with an October 16 parole date for unrelated offending.