REMEMBER WHEN

GOLD COAST BULLETIN Wednesday, April 16, 1986

AN “INFATUATED” man who allegedly held a married woman against her will, threatened to kill all the men in her life and at one stage said there would be a bloodbath if police intervened, the Southport District Court was told.

The man, 21, threatened to shoot himself and the woman. He said he would leave notes on their bodies which stated how much they loved each other and how much she hated everyone else, the court heard.

The man, formerly of Surfers Paradise, pleaded not guilty to charges of unlawfully detaining the woman against her will and going armed in public to cause fear to her.

In evidence during the first day of the trial, the woman, 22, said she became “good friends” with him while working as a camp attendant at a western Queensland mining site in 1985.

They had spoken about personal matters – that the man’s de facto wife was expecting their second child and that the woman’s husband had not accepted the loss of their first.

It had become obvious the man wanted to be more than good friends but she told him she was married.

The woman said she had later been at her home near Ipswich when she received a call from the man.

The man reportedly said he loved her and wanted her to go away with him.

“I think it was more of an infatuation than anything else,” she told the court.

The man said he hated her family and wanted her for himself alone.