Melbourne man fakes stab wound to get back in his ex’s good books
A man’s attempt to fake a serious injury to get sympathy from his ex backfired when she made him phone 000. Police quickly determined the real cause of the injury and it didn’t shed him in the best light.
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A 51-year-old man who faked a stab wound to garner sympathy from his ex-girlfriend had his plan backfire badly.
The eastern suburbs man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court on June 25 to contravening an intervention order by turning up at his ex’s house on March 10 with blood pouring out of his head.
Court documents described how the man banged on his ex’s door at 2am, and when she answered she was greeted by a scene from a horror movie.
The man had blood gushing from a wound to the head he told her he’d received from a stranger nearby, according to court documents.
She cleaned him up and tended to his wounds with a first aid kit but begged him to phone 000, which he dialled before hanging up immediately.
Emergency call centre operators sent police to do a welfare check due to the strange nature of the call, and when police arrived the man first told them he’d been stabbed in the face before later coming clean.
He told them he’d made the whole thing up and the truth was he’d fallen over in a drunken stupor and banged his head on a rock.
In return for his honesty police charged him for breaching a family violence intervention order.
The man also pleaded guilty to further breaches of the order in April and June, some which included threatening to inflict serious injury against his ex.
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Magistrate David Starvaggi sentenced the man to a day’s jail and ordered he stay away from his ex.
He told the man he had a history of intervention order breaches and if he didn’t get his act together he’d be caught in a “revolving door” going in and out of custody.
“The problem is there’s a pattern and it’s sustained,” Mr Starvaggi said.
“If he’s not (deterred) it’s just going to be a revolving door.”