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Jon AndrewsCourt reporter

Jon Andrews is a suburban court reporter with nearly two decades of experience.

Coward-punchers, head stompers, pensioner punchers and fast food fiends are among fight-happy felons to have fronted our courts.

A weapon wielder who kept a blade engraved with ‘Don’t f*** around’ in his pants couldn’t stop nodding off at train stations.

A counter-jumping burglar was all made up after stealing a trolley load of cosmetics from kiosks at a closed shopping mall.

The menaces on our roads include a pizza deliverer who likes donuts, a backbreaking ice-addled speedster and a show-off silly skidder. See the rest.

Con the conman: A ‘restorer’ who took $28k from the owner of a rare 1977 Lincoln Continental also stole from his own family.

Sleazebag sparky: An electrician who took videos under the skirts of schoolgirls and shop workers also had child porn on his phone.

Spit fire: An illegal Seaford home-based food firm is to blame for huge explosions that ignited a bushfire and wrecked a house and cars.

Psychedelic perv: A depraved Narre Warren druggie stalked a woman, driving his car with one hand while performing a sex act with the other.

A Patterson Lakes speedster was racing a mate when he rear-ended another driver leaving a cemetery. Luckily neither ended up there permanently.

‘Blood everywhere’: Scared children called police as they watched their mother being viciously attacked by a binge-drinking thug.