Zaher Alizada: Crap artist smashed police phone, stole meat in jocks
A ‘poo painter’ who packs pepperoni down his pants is in trouble again, this time for destroying a cop’s mobile phone.
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An anti-authority ‘artist’ who uses his toothbrush and faeces to paint pictures on prison walls has struck again.
This time he busted a police phone used for court hearings after he had been arrested for packing stolen meat in his underwear.
Zaher Alizada had been in a cop shop cell on remand for nicking groceries the night before when he took out his anger on their mobile, smashing it into four pieces and sliding it under the cell door.
The 29-year-old homeless unemployed tiler has a history of hating cops and courts, having created ‘artworks’ on prison walls using his toothbrush as a brush and his own faeces as paint.
When he was arrested he was on a community corrections order after only being released from jail a few weeks before for violence, drugs and theft-related offending.
At the online Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on Thursday he pleaded guilty to more thefts, criminal damage, drugs, weapons and court breach charges.
The court heard just before midnight on March 8 this year Alizada walked into Coles in Dandenong and was watched by security guards putting three tins of tuna into his duffle bag.
When police came and searched him they found more stolen Coles foods, including salami in his back pocket and pepperoni concealed down the front of his underpants.
Cops also uncovered items stolen from Kmart, small bags of cannabis, 3g of heroin and a 30cm knife.
He was unable to be interviewed due to his aggressive nature, and remanded in custody.
Alizada wasn’t very happy the next morning either when he attended court virtually through a police mobile phone.
After the hearing he repeatedly threw the $500 device into a wall and on the ground, stomping on it and pushing the pieces under the cell door.
He refused to be interviewed about his new crimes.
Just two months earlier he had been was sentenced for similar thieving and drug offending and released after serving 65 days inside.
While awaiting that sentence a prison guard saw Alizada walking around his cell with two cups of “brown material”.
She then saw him “use his toothbrush to paint pictures” on prison walls.
His defence lawyer said he has mental health and drug issues, and wanted to make a fresh start and go and live with his sister in Tasmania.
Alizada told the court he knows he needs rehab, has “had enough of drugs and being homeless” and was hopeful of a better life in a new state.
Magistrate Greg Connellan said sentencing Alizada was difficult due to his underlying mental health concerns.
“His drug taking is probably not assisting him, it is making his situation worse,” Mr Connellan said.
“He needs to re-engage with (support) services.
“Otherwise I can see him being released and not engaging and returning to substance abuse and back before the court, sadly.”
Alizada was jailed for a total of 120 days, with 65 days classes as time served.
