Aaron Gallani: Knucklehead accidentally brings knuckledusters to Ringwood Magistrates’ Court

A man caused a security scare at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court when he “forgot” he had a set of knuckledusters in his backpack when it passed through the scanner.

Aaron Gallani said he “forgot” the knuckledusters were in his bag when it was passed through a security scanner at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court.

Knucklehead

A man has been convicted and fined after he was caught red-handed carrying a weapon into a magistrates’ court. Aaron Gallani, 57, fronted Ringwood Magistrates’ Court on November 28 after a security found a knuckleduster in his bag during a previous visit to the same court on April 30. Gallani pleaded guilty to possessing a weapon on court premises and his counsel told Magistrate Timothy Walsh it was a simple oversight that lead him to attempt to carry the weapon into court. He said his client found the weapon a day earlier in a supermarket carpark and intended to hand it to the police but forgot. Mr Walsh said he was “not overly convinced” of Gallani’s explanation given his prior criminal history and he convicted and fined him $800.

Anger issues

A messy break up with his ex-wife lead Michael Delosa, 38, to smash in his father’s car windows after he “lost it” because he discovered his dad was still speaking to his ex, a court was told. Delosa caused thousands of dollars of damage to his father’s car when he took an orange car jack and smashed the windows, brake lights and other parts of the car as it sat in his father’s driveway in Glen Waverley on March 3. Delosa’s defence counsel, on November 28, told Ringwood Magistrates’ Court his client “snapped” and was under significant mental strain at the time, but was now remorseful for his actions and hoped to make amends with his father, who the court heard had terminal cancer. Magistrate Timothy Walsh said Delosa’s actions were reminiscent of “a gangster movie” and he convicted and fined him $500. Delosa was also put on a one-year good behaviour bond and ordered to complete an anger management course.

Sad affair

A woman caught driving to her father’s funeral on a suspended licence has been convicted and fined, despite the magistrate telling her he was “sympathetic” to her cause. The woman lost her licence for 12 months in August last year after she accumulated too many demerit points for driving offences. On May 10 this year police intercepted her as she drove along Edwards St in Heidelberg, and when questioned as to why she was driving with a suspended licence she told them she had no other way of getting to her father’s funeral, the Heidelberg Magistrates'’ Court heard on December 4. Magistrate Ian Alger said the circumstances of the woman’s offending were sad but he said she should not have got behind the wheel. He convicted and fined her $800 but made no further orders against her licence.

Poor decision

A business owner who didn’t trust his drunk employees to drive a company car home from the pub on Australia Day copped a fine when he himself was picked up by police for drink driving and driving without a licence. Onorfio Maiorano passed through a preliminary breath test site on Plenty Rd in Kingsbury on January 26 year while attempting to take his ute back to his factory, but a spanner was thrown in the works when he blew 0.076 and had his car impounded. The Heidelberg Magistrates'’ Court on December 4 heard he previously lost his licence in 1990 after he accumulated too many demerit points and never bothered to get it back, instead getting his employees to chauffer him around. His defence counsel told the court he was “embarrassed” by his offending and now wanted to apply to VicRoads for a licence. Magistrate Ian Alger disqualified Maiorano from driving for six months and fined him $900 as well as statutory costs of $127.40. Maiorano will be able to apply for his licence in June.