Radio death threats: ‘One week, or I’ll stab the new girl in the stomach’
A TRIPLE J listener who sent messages to the station and threatened to “find (the presenter’s) house and kill her daughter” has been jailed.
A TRIPLE J listener who became “dangerously obsessed” with the radio station and sent death threats to on-air presenters and other staff in a failed extortion attempt has been jailed.
Melbourne man Nicholas Williams was today sentenced to six-and-a-half years jail and ordered to serve at least three years before being eligible for parole.
Williams sent 15 text messages to the station threatening violence, rape and murder and demanded $110,000, between December 2014 and January 2015.
The court heard Williams was an obsessive listener of Triple J who had developed a sense of entitlement and became angry when he missed out on ticket’s to the station’s anniversary party.
“If I don’t get an invite to this big event I’m gunna (sic) walk into the ABC store and stab the closest girl. Work it out,” Williams wrote.
“If you think I’m gunna (sic) be the fool think again.”
Another read:
“Now I want 110 grand for every gaol sentence. One week or I stab the new girl in the stomach,” Williams wrote.
“Understand this, that if I don’t get ten grand in my account by party day and it goes ahead, I’ll walk straight into the ABC Shop and stab the first girl I see, deep.”
Williams also threatened to kill the daughter of an unidentified presenter.
“If I don’t get my ten grand I’m gunna find (the presenter’s) house and kill her daughter,” Williams wrote.
Victorian County Court judge Richard Smith said Williams “appear(ed) to have developed a dangerous and unhealthy obsession with regard to (his) messaging of Triple J presenters
“You formed the belief that your contribution had been an important one and that Triple J had profited from their introduction of such messaging from you,” Judge Smith said.
“It is sufficient to say that over a number of years you sent many messages to Triple J referring to a large number of issues including the music played by it and the performance of its on-air presenters,” Judge Smith said.
“Many, but not all, of those messages were sent by you whilst you were serving various prison sentences.
“It is fair to say that you became obsessed with your messaging to the station.”
A victim impact statement from the presenter was tendered in court, saying she was “frightened, fearful, stressed and anxious” by the texts Williams had sent, according to Fairfax.
The court heard that Williams suffers from a psychotic illness that caused him to have a “morbid and delusional infatuation” with the station.