‘I FEEL SHAME’
Drunk apologises; fined
THE brother of a nurse and a doctor has been fined after causing the emergency department waiting room of the Gold Coast’s largest hospital to be evacuated because he threatened to bite another patient’s nose off. Wade Robert Bellamy pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court to committing public nuisance in Gold Coast University Hospital on November 26 after going in for treatment. Alarm bells rang when he threatened to “cave in” heads of other patients. Bellamy, who said he had been drinking, told the court: “My sister is a nurse and my brother-inlaw is a doctor at Ipswich Hospital and I’m quite embarrassed.”
MY SISTER IS A NURSE AND MY BROTHER-IN-LAW IS A DOCTOR AT IPSWICH HOSPITAL AND I’M QUITE EMBARRASSED
WADE ROBERT BELLAMY (BELOW)
THE brother of a nurse and brother-in-law of a doctor has been fined for causing the emergency department waiting room of the Gold Coast’s largest hospital to be evacuated because he threatened to bite another patient’s nose off.
Wade Robert Bellamy on Tuesday pleaded guilty in the Southport Magistrates Court to committing a public nuisance in the Gold Coast University Hospital on November 26, 2020 after being taken to the hospital for treatment.
Emergency department staff were put on high alert when he started saying he would “cave in” the heads of other patients, police said.
The court heard Bellamy, from Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, took issue with another man also waiting to see medics, telling police officers after they were called: “The little crack head was eyeballing me”.
The court heard Bellamy said: “When I see a little crack head laughing, I want to bite his nose off and spit on his head.”
But Bellamy, who was self represented, told the court he reacted the way he did because he had drunk alcohol for the first time in months after he found out a friend had been killed in a motorcycle accident in Newcastle.
He said he consumed the alcohol with anti-anxiety medication, which adversely affected him.
“My sister is a nurse and my brother-in-law is a doctor at Ipswich Hospital and I’m quite embarrassed,” Bellamy said from the bar table.
The court heard he had previously served four months’ jail in NSW for assault and domestic violencerelated offences.
Bellamy was fined $1200 and had a conviction recorded.