William John Currey scribbled his name on cop station wall as he left watch house

The 32-year-old Oakey man had not gone 20 steps from the watch house door when he was seen to offend again. After a few days in the watchhouse, he has walked free again.

William John Currey leaves Toowoomba watch house after being sentenced to four months parole for damaging a police station wall and swearing at police.

After three days in the Toowoomba watch house, Oakey man William John Currey walked out a free man on Tuesday, much to his relief.

“I’ll plead guilty, I wanna go home, Boss,” the 32-year-old had moments earlier told Acting Magistrate Damian Carroll when asked what he intended doing with his charges.

Currey had been released on bail from the same watch house on Saturday morning after appearing briefly in the same court but was seen by police officers on Hume St to scratch his surname into the police station wall with his phone charger as he left the precinct.

That led police to arrest him again, and an agitated Currey had verbally abused police, calling them “dog *****” in front of members of the public at the police station front count counter when he was being processed before being taken back into the watch house, the same court heard.

Police prosecutor Bettina Trenear told the court the scratched graffiti of Currey’s surname was 30cm by 100cm but police had not yet provided the cost of fixing the paint damage.

Ms Trenear said Currey had a lengthy criminal history, and given this offending was so close to the police watch house from which he had just been released, a period of imprisonment was within range.

Duty lawyer Ryan McCullough, of MacDonald Law, told the court his client usually lived with his sister in Oakey, but he had been in and out of jail much of his adult life.

His client had a 14-year-old son who lived on the Sunshine Coast and who he saw occasionally, he said.

Currey instructed that he had been angry at the time of the offending, but he was remorseful for his behaviour, he said.

Mr Carroll accepted Currey had been angry but berated him for behaving in such a “disgraceful” manner.

“This was just anger, explicit anger,” Mr Carroll said.

“But to call the police ‘dog ‘*****’ in a public place is disgraceful.”

Mr Carroll declared the three days in custody as time served and sentenced Currey to four months in jail but ordered he be released on parole immediately.