Disgraced charity founder granted bail on DV strangulation charges

The founder of a bullying charity has been granted bail after spending nearly 100 days on remand charged with new domestic violence offences against two different women.

Conan Visser was granted bail.

A charity founder-turned social media star is facing fresh domestic violence allegations against two different women.

Conan Visser, 40, made an application for bail in Brisbane Supreme Court on Wednesday after spending 95 days on remand charged with strangling two women.

He was charged in April with domestic violence charges including three counts of strangulation, three of common assault, two of assault occasioning bodily harm, and one of deprivation of liberty.

Visser, the founder of bullying charity I Can I Will, was exposed as a domestic violence offender back in 2020 when he pleaded guilty to assaulting a previous partner, the court heard.

The social media star joined OnlyFans in 2021, claiming it would expand his anti-bullying message “into a new space and bigger audience to help more people”.

Visser has not posted to his OnlyFans since 2023, but remained active on other social media until his arrest – with over 240k followers on TikTok and claims he has a “doco coming out in 2025”.

Crown prosecutor Matilda McLennan-Bird told the court that Visser’s prior offending, which occurred in December 2018, involved Visser assaulting a woman and putting his hands around her throat.

“In my submission that is strikingly similar to the offences which he now presently seeks bail,” Ms McLennan-Bird said.

Conan Visser. Picture: Peter Cronin

“He demonstrates a protracted pattern of domestic violence behaviour.”

However, she noted that previous offending was charged only as assault occasioning bodily harm and not as strangulation.

At Visser’s bail application on Wednesday, defence barrister Timothy Wise called the new strangulation charges into question.

He said Visser’s most recent alleged victim had told police back in April – just days after the Visser allegedly attacked her – that she didn’t want to proceed with her complaint against him.

The woman had even attended court to support him and offered to move out of her address so that Visser could use it as his bail address, Mr Wise said.

The court heard the other woman, who Visser had allegedly strangled and assaulted a year prior, had initially told medical staff that she had been repeatedly hit and pushed in the body and neck – not strangled.

Mr Wise said the defence intended to test whether the evidence reached a strangulation charge.

He told the court Visser now had an Airbnb-style address available to him in Coorparoo, and submitted that strict bail conditions would address any potential risks he may pose on bail.

In addition to the domestic violence allegations, the court heard Visser is also charged with unlawfully using a motor vehicle and using a carriage service to menace, harass, or cause offence to a man he had been conducting work as a contractor for.

Justice Sean Cooper said Visser had allegedly refused to return the man’s car and sent him messages abusing him and demanding money over a believed debt.

The court heard the messages included Visser allegedly telling the man he had sent his details to “bikies”.

Justice Cooper said he was ultimately satisfied that strict bail conditions would be appropriate under the circumstances.

He granted Visser bail under conditions including that he reside at the Coorparoo address, report three times a week, comply with an evening curfew, not contact any of the complainants, attend a men’s behavioural change program, and that he wear an ankle monitor.

Visser will further be subject to drug and alcohol testing, and will be barred from travelling both interstate and internationally.