Security guard David Ghazawy pleads guilty over menacing emails to managers

A security guard sent late-night sexual and violent death threats to former bosses, forcing one to hire personal security. The extent of the depraved emails can be revealed. GRAPHIC WARNING

David Ghazawy, 39, pleaded guilty in Sutherland Local Court on Thursday to two counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend after he sent disturbing emails to his former managers. Picture: Ashleigh Tullis

A security guard has sent disturbing, depraved and specific threats of violence to three managers and their families in emails to a group of his former colleagues.

David Ghazawy, 39, pleaded guilty in Sutherland Local Court on Thursday to two counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend.

The agreed facts tendered to court said Ghazawy, who lives at Colyton near Penrith, was employed with GS4 Security Services, contracted by DXC Technology, as a security officer before he was terminated in 2020.

On October 4 this year, the security service sent an email to all current and past employees stating there had been a data breach where personal information may have leaked.

About 4.30am on October 5, Ghazawy sent an email from his personal address to one of his male manager’s work email address.

David Ghazawy has sought for his charges to be dealt with under the Mental Health Act when sentenced. Picture: Ashleigh Tullis

The email contained sexual threats of violence and death towards the manager and his family, with some of the details too graphic to publish.

“You and I are going to become well acquainted. So well acquainted that the word intimate comes to mind,” Ghazawy wrote.

The email contained a graphic account of Ghazawy’s own death before he said, “I just wanted to illustrate the depths I’m willing to go and am going to go to with you”.

In the email, Ghazawy made references to another male and female manager.

He ended the email by asking how long it would take for the man’s wife to “bleed out” if she was stabbed in the neck.

The threats scared the man so much he sent the rest of his family to a holiday house and hired two private security guards for his protection.

Later that day, the man forwarded the email to the other two managers.

David Ghazawy sent the emails two years after he was terminated. Picture: Ashleigh Tullis

Ghazawy sent another email from his personal account about 1am on October 6 to the same man, as well as his other two managers and several other employees.

Documents detail further graphic threats with Ghazawy saying he was “beginning to feel like my old self again” and thought about “dousing” one of his manager’s wife and children in “petrol and lighting a match”.

Ghazawy wrote about wondering “who would scream more” – the man or his family.

“Oh, how they burn,” he added before saying he had the man’s home address.

“Perhaps I’ll pay your wife and children a visit when you are away, busy at work,” Ghazawy wrote.

“What it ultimately shows is the depth of depravity I’m willing to go to”.

Ghazawy also wrote threats about his female manager.

“I do lament that such an explosion would blow you into tiny pieces, depriving all of us of an experience where someone would take a crowbar and bash your f---ing head in again and again, cracking your skull wide open and splattering your brain matter all over the floor,” he said.

Ghazawy then suggested one manager “take a knife” and insert it into his other manager’s spinal cord.

A manager reported the emails to Sutherland police and Ghazawy was arrested and charged.

One of the managers reported the email to Sutherland Police Station, describing how he felt intimidated, scared and feared for his and his family’s safety.

He told officers he was worried about the ramifications on his employment and reputation in the company, the document said.

The other two managers also provided statements to police before Ghazawy was arrested on October 6.

The reason Ghazawy sent the graphic, “menacing and harassing” emails was not disclosed in the documents and was not revealed in court.

In court, Ghazawy sought for the charges to be dealt with under the Mental Health Act rather than criminal law.

He will attend an appointment with a psychologist and a report will be prepared before a hearing on January 25.