Satudarah: Former Canberra bikie boss David Michael Evans faces court over threats made against woman from prison
A former Canberra bikie boss made terrifying threats from behind bars. Then on Tuesday he stormed out of court calling a prosecutor a “f***ing mutt”.
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Former Canberra bikie boss David Michael Evans stormed out of court on Tuesday, calling a prosecutor a “f***ing mutt” and demanding to be taken back to the cells.
Evans, 33, faced the ACT Magistrates Court on charges stemming from a series of abusive phone calls he made to a woman from Canberra’s shambolically-run prison, including one in which he said he would “f***ing bleed you like a pig”.
Evans, a former president of the Satudarah outlaw bikie gang, has previously pleaded guilty to seven counts of using a carriage service to harass.
Evans, in a sweary outburst, demanded guards take him back to the cells midway through Tuesday’s sentencing hearing.
Special Magistrate Margaret Hunter described the outburst as an example of Evans’s “stupidity”.
“We can’t run the proceedings at the whim of these people,” she said.
“If he’s going to be like that he can hear the transcript.”
The court heard Evans threatened the woman with violence in a series of recorded phone calls from the Alexander Maconochie Centre in mid-2019.
Among his threats, he said: “I’d cut your f***ing throat, you f***ing rat”.
Ms Hunter said: “Just because he’s in jail doesn’t mean he can’t get things done for him.”
“I’d be foolish to think it can’t be done.
“He says he can get guns and hide them from police.
“He doesn’t seem to give a damn about anything.”
Asked whether Evans was “just piss and wind”, Evans’s lawyer said: “There are means for people to arrange things from inside custody”.
Evans’s lawyer said Ms Hunter should be careful not to confuse Evans’s threats with his non-threatening use of foul language, which she said were part of his “conversational tone”, including calling the woman a “haggard c**t”.
“There was also endearing language used, such as ‘I love you’, and other things of that nature,” she said.
Evans is due to be sentenced next month for his role in an aggravated robbery in January last year, in which he broke a man’s leg by smashing it with an electric guitar.
Ms Hunter will sentence Evans on the harassment charges after Supreme Court Justice Chrissa Loukas-Karlsson has sentenced him over the robbery.