Broadmeadows Magistrates’ Court: Woman allegedly threatens to ruin ex’s career
A woman unable to come to grips with the end of her relationship allegedly harassed her ex with disturbing messages and texts, some in which she threatened to ruin his career or laughed uncontrollably.
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A woman who allegedly harassed her ex with hundreds of calls and messages and threatened to ruin his career has been bailed by a magistrate who said she posed “no physical threat”.
The 27-year-old was freed by the Broadmeadows Magistrates'’ Court yesterday afternoon after handing herself in to police on Tuesday.
First Constable Shannon Egan told the court the woman, unable to cope with the end of the eight-month relationship, allegedly stalked her ex on social media and called and texted him 1276 times between March 14 and May 26.
Some of the social media messages allegedly threatened to ruin his professional career by exposing his drug habit to colleagues, First Constable Egan told the court.
Voice messages allegedly left on his phone recorded her singing to him, laughing uncontrollably or mumbling incoherently, and she also allegedly sent him bank transactions for small amounts of money with descriptions such as; “I love you always” and “I like your family”.
The woman went so far as to allegedly repeatedly contact the man’s brother, prompting both him and her victim to take out intervention orders against her earlier this year.
First Constable Egan told the court the woman’s alleged offending breached her bail conditions and the intervention orders.
She also told the court police feared she would continue to intimidate her victims if freed.
But the woman’s lawyer told the court his client suffered bipolar disorder and had been transitioning between medications at the time of the alleged offences.
She was now seeing a psychiatrist, he told the court, and she would continue to do so if released.
“(The offences) really speak to someone who has fallen off her medications,” he told the court.
Magistrate Olivia Trumble freed the woman, telling the court while the woman had allegedly been emotionally abusive, she posed “no physical threat”.
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She also said it was unlikely the woman would be jailed if she later chose to plead guilty to the allegations.
“She is not someone with a prior criminal history and accordingly no history of breaking bail conditions other than the matter she is on bail for today,” Ms Trumble said.
“For all these reasons bail in this case is granted.
The woman is due back at court in August.