Sharon Stott, David Evans plead not guilty to baseball bat standover job
Canberra underworld figure Sharon Ann Stott is standing trial, accused of getting a baseball-bat wielding bikie to try to beat a $20,000 debt out of a man.
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Canberra underworld matriarch Sharon Ann Stott and her alleged bikie henchman David Michael Evans have denied they performed an armed standover job and attempted kidnapping at a suburban home.
Stott, 59, and Evans, 33, have both pleaded not guilty to a string of charges including unlawful confinement, making a threat, and attempted kidnapping.
Evans allegedly beat spray painter Chris Sanchez with a baseball bat in January last year as part of a standover job motivated by Stott’s desire to recover an outstanding $20,000 debt.
Mr Sanchez told the court he knew Stott from when he owned a car yard and did occasional repairs for her as a panel beater.
Mr Sanchez was at a friend’s house when he was approached by Evans who grabbed a baseball bat but he had “no idea” what was happening.
“I’ve never seen him before in my life,” Mr Sanchez said.
“That’s when the threats started from him.
“He wouldn’t let me move (or) let me take my hands off of my legs.”
Mr Sanchez later identified Evans on a police photo board.
“He was stating … if I move my hands or anything he would smash me up with the baseball bat.”
Mr Sanchez said Evans said “everything would be right if you co-operate”.
He said he didn’t feel that he could leave.
“I was told that I owed some money from 10 years ago or something that I didn’t know about,” he said.
Stott did not say what the debt was from, Mr Sanchez said.
Among the threats Evans allegedly made was to smash Mr Sanchez’s kneecaps.
Mr Sanchez told the court he would describe Evans as “ugly” and “stocky” with brown hair and “terrible teeth”.
“He has this real angry look on his face all the time, like, I hadn’t done anything bad to him.”
Mr Sanchez was left with serious injuries, but the ordeal came to an end when he grabbed a knife from his kitchen and chased Stott and Evans from the home.
Crown Prosecutor Keegan Lee said the case would be bolstered by forensic evidence, including DNA from the baseball bat.
Outside court, Stott told reporters: “f**k you c**ts”.
The trial, before Justice John Burns, sitting without a jury, continues.