Geelong menace jailed over threats to kill

A GEELONG menace who threatened police and government workers and blasted his neighbours with super-loud music will spend more than a year in jail.

Corio’s Alex Boros was sentenced yesterday after repeatedly testing the patience of the judiciary with his obscene language and disrespectful court- room behaviour while ineptly representing himself.

In a final affront, at least six police officers, prosecutors, Judge Geoff Chettle and his staff were left waiting in court last week when Boros failed to show for an appointment made months earlier.

The man, 42, had been on bail since February when a Geelong jury found him guilty of threatening to kill a police officer and a bail justice, and menacing a child protection worker.

Judge Chettle ordered the man be examined by a psychologist, then a psychiatrist, before sentencing him, which would have happened last week if Boros had shown up.

Judge Chettle was also going to hear the man’s appeal against a jail term given to him in Geelong Magistrates’ Court late last year for resisting police and repeatedly breach- ing bail conditions and police requests to turn down his supercharged stereo.

Police were called to Boros’ Sharland Rd home 34 times for noise complaints in the 2016-17 financial year and countless other times over the previous five years, the court heard.

But the K rock radio lover repeatedly rejected their requests and demands to lower the volume. Eventually bail conditions were imposed that required him to keep the music down, but magistrate Michael Coghlan heard Boros kept ignoring them.

Mr Coghlan’s four-month sentence was upheld yesterday when, in his absence, Judge Chettle dismissed the appeal.

On the conviction given to the man by the jury for making threats and using a carriage service to menace, Boros was sentenced to 15 months in jail with a non-parole period of a year.