Crime: Jamie Terrence Jackson faces Gold Coast court after damaging 34 cars with pole on Burleigh Heads street
Thirty-four cars were damaged within minutes by a man wielding a metal pole – here’s why he did it.
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THIRTY-FOUR cars were damaged within minutes by a metal pole-wielding man who’d had a bad reaction to drugs
Jamie Terrence Jackson broke windows, scratched paintwork and smashed lights on the cars parked in a Burleigh Heads street in June last year.
The 43-year-old pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court on Thursday to 34 counts of wilful damage.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Glenn Whittle said Jackson “essentially went on a spree”, causing $14,000 worth of damage to the cars.
He asked the court to impose a “lengthy period of probation to deal with what are obviously the anger management issues which resulted in this damage”.
Defence lawyer Bettina Webb, of Howden Saggers Lawyers, said Jackson had suffered a breakdown after he lost his children in 2016.
She said following the incident Jackson was admitted to a mental health ward for a number of days.
The court was told Jackson, who is on Centrelink benefits, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was undergoing treatment.
Magistrate Kerry Magee noted a recent medical report described Jackson as “cooperative and polite”.
“You had consumed drugs prior to that so the incapacity was contributed to by drug use,” she said.
She sentenced him to 18 months probation.
Magistrate Magee ordered that Jackson pay for the damage done to the vehicles belonging to victims who did not have insurance, a total of $6381.
Originally published as Crime: Jamie Terrence Jackson faces Gold Coast court after damaging 34 cars with pole on Burleigh Heads street
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