Robbery accused in city court

A MAN charged with the alleged armed robbery of a Toowoomba hotel is to take his case straight up to the higher court to be dealt with.

Michael Alfred Pitt is accused of threatening staff of the Wilsonton Hotel with a piece of wood in the early hours of Wednesday, June 5, and fleeing on foot with a sum of cash.

Police claim they located the 39-year-old soon after the alleged incident and he has since been held in custody.

He has not as yet been required to enter any pleas to charges arising from the matter which included two counts of common assault and one count each of assault occasioning bodily harm while armed, entering a premises with intent to commit an indictable offence, and robbery with actual violence.

He was also on unrelated charges which include two counts each of entering a premises with intent to commit an offence and fraud.

He was not in Toowoomba Magistrates Court yesterday for the brief mention of his charges but was represented by his solicitor Joe Millican.

Mr Millican told the court he had received the police brief of evidence and had taken instructions from his client and that the matters would proceed by way of registry committal up to the District Court to be dealt with.

There being no application for bail, Acting Magistrate Roger Stark remanded Pitt in custody and adjourned the case for mention back in the same court on September 26 by which time it was envisaged that the registry committal would have been done.