Brandon Anthony Davenport and Keiron Wilmot in Coffs Harbour court

The pair were “off their heads” with one brandishing a homemade bat and the other threatening to “skull drag” a 60-year-old woman around the house, the court heard.

A 60-year-old woman took the stand in Coffs Harbour Local Court claiming she had been threatened with a homemade bat, and with being “skull dragged” around the floor, in an attempt to take her car.

Brandon Anthony Davenport and Keiron Wilmot pleaded not guilty to several charges in relation to the incident on June 8 last year.

Davenport had been refused bail following his arrest on June 10 last year, but was then granted bail in December. This was revoked and he has been remanded in custody since early May and he appeared in the dock for the hearing which kicked off on Thursday and concluded on Friday, August 26.

Wilmot has been on bail ever since the incident. Police facts tendered to the court show she has never been in custody before.

The 60-year-old woman, who spends time living in her car and at ‘tent city’, said she had been lured to a house where she was threatened, and asked to sign over ownership of her car.

But one of the police officers who investigated the incident and took the stand to give evidence said, when questioned, Wilmot clearly stated “I never hurt that old lady”.

During her evidence the elderly woman said Davenport took his shirt off and was pacing around the house brandishing a homemade bat and claiming to be ‘Mr Coffs Harbour’ and that Wilmot repeatedly threatened to skull drag her around the house.

Asked by the police prosecutor Jack Chaffey what she understood skull dragging to be, she said: “I don’t know but it doesn’t sound good.”

Brandon Anthony Davenport.

She said the pair were “off their heads on something” and that when she tried to call a friend for help Davenport snatched the phone and said “it’s Mr Coffs Harbour here.”

At one point magistrate Ian Rodgers had to warn Davenport to stop shaking his head and reacting to the evidence.

“This is a terribly designed courtroom with a direct line of sight between the accused and the witness,” Mr Rodgers said before calling a short time out.

The court also heard that the woman no longer had her licence and had spoken with Davenport about the possibility of selling it to him.

The area behind Coffs Harbour Neighbourhood Centre has been known as 'tent city' for years.

Defence lawyer Tony Cox questioned the sequence of events and how she came to be at the house saying she hadn’t been lured there but was there to buy weed.

“I beg your pardon, I don’t make things up,” she responded.

Davenport and Wilmot pleaded not guilty to all the charges stemming from the incident.

After the hearing, Davenport, 31, was found not guilty of demand property in company with menace with intent to steal.

But he was found guilty of stalk or intimidate intending to cause fear of physical or mental harm (personal violence). He was convicted and given a 16-month prison sentence with an eight-month non-parole period and, with time already served remanded in custody, will be eligible for release on October 26 this year.

Wilmot was found not guilty of stealing from a person (of a value less than $2000) and not guilty of demand property in company with menace with intent to steal.

She was found guilty of stalk or intimidate intending to cause fear of physical or mental harm (personal violence) and will be sentenced on October 11.