Wade Robert Bellamy pleads guilty to public nuisance at Gold Coast University Hospital
The brother of a nurse and a doctor has been fined after causing the emergency department waiting room at Gold Coast University Hospital to be evacuated because he threatened to bite another patient’s nose off.
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THE brother of a nurse and a doctor has been fined after causing the emergency department waiting room of the Gold Coast’s largest hospital to be evacuated because he threatened to bite another patient’s nose off.
Wade Robert Bellamy on Tuesday pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court to committing a public nuisance in the Gold Coast University Hospital on November 26, 2020 after being taken to the hospital for treatment.
Emergency department staff were put on high alert when he started saying he would “cave in” the heads of other patients about midnight on the same date late last year, police said.
The court heard Bellamy, from Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, took issue with another man also waiting to see medics, telling police officers after they were called: “The little crack head was eyeballing me”.
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The court heard Bellamy said: “When I see a little crack head laughing, I want to bite his nose off and spit on his head.”
But Bellamy, who was self-represented, told the court he reacted the way he did because he had drunk alcohol for the first time in months after he found out a friend had been killed in a motorcycle accident in Newcastle.
He said he consumed the alcohol with anti-anxiety medication, which adversely affected him.
“My sister is a nurse and my brother-in-law is a doctor at Ipswich Hospital and I’m quite embarrassed,” Bellamy said from the bar table.
The court heard he had previously served four months’ jail in NSW for assault and domestic violence-related offences.
Bellamy was fined $1200 and had a conviction recorded.
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