Matthew Stuart: ‘Homicidal’ thug’s unborn baby, mum death threats
A terrifying tyrant said he would chop off his pregnant girlfriend’s head and “cut out” their baby in horror outbursts.
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A bullying brute has pleaded guilty to subjecting his partner and their unborn baby to disturbing and deadly threats because he wanted to control her.
Matthew Robert Stuart said he was going to murder the woman “bloody violently” and that he “just couldn’t let her live” if she left the house for any reason other than buying groceries.
He also said he would give her to bikies to use as a sex slave and he would get a police gun and shoot people until it was empty of bullets.
He also stole one of the woman’s cars and vandalised her second vehicle.
When he was arrested he told cops he was “homicidal” and couldn’t control what he might do to her or them.
The Seaford 52-year-old jailbird has spent periods in prison in the past, including more than two years in the slammer in 2018 for bashing a mate with a homemade whip over a $50 debt.
Stuart pleaded guilty to threats, damage, drugs and using a carriage service to harass charges at the Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
The court heard in February this year he repeatedly texted and called her, showed up at her house and told her he was going to hurt her.
He said to the woman, who was three months pregnant at the time, that he would “cut out their unborn baby” and he would “cut off her head from her neck”.
He also said he would “give her” to his Finks OMCG mates to use as a “local bikie prostitute”, that he would put her in a “snuff movie” and he would “have no problem” killing her.
When police attended the woman’s house he wasn’t there, but they later found him in a Frankston driveway with Xanax pills in his wallet.
Stuart told officers he was paranoid and homicidal, and heard voices saying he should kill people.
His defence lawyer said her client had experienced mental health issues since he was 19 and at the time of the offending he was not being treated.
She said he had a limited recollection of events and needed community oversight as he has difficulty in self-medicating the injections he requires.
She said she needed more time for an updated psychiatric report to be compiled and requested the sentence be deferred.
Magistrate Timothy Gattuso said Stuart’s 22 pages of priors dating back to 1986, including some against women, was very concerning.
“This is very high end in terms of violence - to the point of him saying he was homicidal,” Mr Gattuso said.
“His risk (to the community) is high when he is not properly supervised and drugs are being used.”
Stuart was remanded in custody until August 16.
