NEWS Naked truth on nuisance
SERIAL pest and self-styled “rubbish warrior” Trevor Jenkins twice stripped naked during court appearances, lied about his mother’s death and used the Territory justice system as a “method of punishing and bullying those who did not give him what he wanted”.
Those findings are contained in a 150-page document published by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Southwood this week outlining the full extent of the “incoherent and irrelevant ramblings” that saw Jenkins declared the NT’s first vexatious litigant last year.
In handing down his decision, Justice Southwood ruled Jenkins was “motivated by a bizarre and querulous quest for a personal vision of justice to which all else is subordinated” in launching 72 vexatious proceedings in NT courts.
Justice Southwood found Jenkins repeatedly “tried to institute proceedings by filing incoherent, illegible and unhygienic material at the Supreme Court and Local Court registries”.
The document also reveals the disputes which saw Jenkins barred from bringing virtually all future court action include an attempt to obtain an Ochre Card so he could work as an NTFL umpire and a counter prosecution of a priest who he had assaulted.
A partial transcript of Jenkins’ “incoherent and discursive rambling and agitated and vituperative gabbling” included in the document reveals he saw himself as a “Northern Territory legend” and ”prophet within the church for poor people”.
Justice Southwood found Jenkins “maliciously laid false criminal charges” against multiple innocent people “out of spite” and each of the prosecutions “constituted a gross abuse of process”.
“They were instituted for a wrongful purpose, namely to harass and cause detriment to each of the defendants who were completely innocent of all of the matters alleged against them,” he wrote.
“The respondent deliberately and knowingly, falsely laid very serious criminal charges to harass and cause detriment to the above named persons who were all utterly blameless and were performing their duties to the best of their ability with the utmost integrity and decency.”
The document reveals Jenkins “has a personality disorder rather than a diagnosable mental illness”.
“He is not an exceptional person,” Justice Southwood ruled. “He is a person with a personality disorder who deliberately and of his own choosing made a very serious nuisance of himself for far too long.” For a full breakdown of Jenkins’ “meritless and scurrilous nonsense” visit www.ntnews.com.au