Aaron Heather bashed Wyong police officer Rachael Robins
The deranged thoughts of a man, who believed he was getting messages from God before he kneed a Central Coast female police officer in the head twice as she offered him a cup of tea, have been revealed in court.
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The deranged behaviour that preceded the brutal assault of a female police officer who was offering Aaron Heather tea at Wyong Police Station has come to light.
Heather, 42, was the inmate behind the sudden attack at the Central Coast police station which left Custody Sergeant Rachael Robins with a broken nose and cuts to her face requiring several stitches.
According to police facts, Heather pulled Sergeant Robins down by the hair and kneed her twice in the head.
The image of Sergeant Robins with a swollen face and a bloodied uniform, lying on a hospital bed, shocked the community.
Heather had his case heard at Gosford District Court on Thursday via audiovisual link from Parklea Correctional Facility.
On March 18 last year, he was arrested at his Halekulani home, outside of Gosford, after reports of an assault.
Police documents tell of a deranged man, whose “behaviour (had) started to deteriorate.”
“He began speaking frequently about God and the Bible and would reference needing to fight the devil,” police facts read.
Three days before he was arrested, he wrote a note to an acquaintance which said: “GOD is telling me to send you this message. The fallen angels are here and it’s almost time. God will let us know where and when”.
His mum said: “Aaron has been talking of seeing things in the sky, falling angels coming … He has also been reading the Bible to the kids”.
Police attended the house that afternoon following reports of an assault, intimidation and unstable behaviour.
Upon his arrest he said police were “demonic people” and that “demons that go live in the underworld”.
He was taken to Wyong Police Station and according to police facts, and while Heather was in custody, about 9.30pm, Sergeant Robins came to the cells to offer him a cup of tea.
When she opened the dock he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her head down on his knee twice.
“(The officer) heard a ‘crunching sound’,” according to police facts, “and could see blood dripping onto the floor of the charge room”.
Heather tried to flee from the cells but was tackled to the ground, resisting several officers, and was eventually detained by police.
Sergeant Robins was taken to hospital with a 2cm to 3cm laceration under her right eye and 1cm laceration over her nasal bridge.
She had stitches inserted and later underwent plastic surgery on March 26 and 29, but was left with “a persisting degree of nasal obstruction (which) may be inevitable despite surgical correction,” according to police facts.
Heather pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer in the execution of duty causing actual bodily harm, assault officer in the execution of duty, four counts of stalk or intimidate intending to cause fear and negligent driving, and aggravated break and enter.
He will return to Gosford District Court on May 7 to find out when he will be sentenced.