Beau Ibbott: Baxter bricklayer destroys cars after being shot
A raging bulked-up Baxter brickie lost the plot after hitting the booze and popping Xanax. Even taking a bullet in the back couldn’t slow him down.
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A raging thug who was shot as he tried to break into a Baxter home took a chainsaw and a torch to his victims’ vehicles while wounded.
Beau Anthony Ibbott, 31, fronted the County Court on Thursday, pleading guilty to charges including aggravated burglary and criminal damage by fire.
Hopped up on whisky and Xanax, Ibbott was almost unstoppable when he carried out the attack at a Grant Rd property late on July 2, 2020.
Ibbott announced his arrival by revving his engine in the driveway, then aggressively yelled threats to the house’s three occupants as they scrambled to lock the doors.
He then forced his way through the doors onto the porch while armed with a homemade mini axe, made of a metal tube with a crude blade welded onto the end.
Ibbott smashed the front door with the axe, then broke the bathroom windows with his fists.
A male occupant fired a warning shot, hitting his own TV, to which Ibbott replied, “You won’t f*cking shoot me,” and kept trying to break in.
Ibbott had broken the glass panels by the front door and had just managed to unlock the door when the man shot him in the lower back.
The three occupants fled out the back of the house to the neighbouring property and Ibbott — not phased by the bullet in his torso — proceeded to do burnouts in their driveway.
He then punched the windscreen of his own vehicle before he took a chainsaw and cut the bonnets, windows and panels of the victims’ ute and sedan.
Ibbott then took a butane torch to the ute and it completely burnt out.
He then smashed the windscreen of one of the victims’ work trucks and walked around in search of his victims.
It was then that others arrived at the scene and gave him first aid on his bleeding abdomen.
Police arrived and Ibbott was taken to The Alfred hospital, where he had emergency surgery.
Ibbott was taken into custody on July 13, 2020, after he was released from hospital.
The court heard he had “concerning” prior convictions, and had previously been jailed over assaults three times.
It was heard the bricklayer had a supportive family, employment available to him and two young children.
Judge McInerney noted that after being shot, Ibbott “just went off”.
Ibbott will be sentenced on July 15.
