Hothead guilty over threats

CORIO hothead Alex Boros was yesterday found guilty of making threats to kill a bail justice and a police officer, and of menacing a child protection worker.

Boros, 42, represented himself in a two-day jury trial that threatened to descend into farce because of his behaviour.

He swore, argued, paced, skolled Fanta, took painkillers and delivered bizarre rants, and was repeatedly warned about his antics by Judge Geoffrey Chettle.

But Judge Chettle kept the proceeding on track, and accepted the jury’s verdict at 4.30pm.

Boros pleaded not guilty to three counts of making threats to kill in 2016, but was found guilty on two.

The charges arose from three incidents: a text message sent to a child protection worker on April 12; a phone call to a government office on May 11; and a confrontation with police officers on May 11.

The court heard the child protection worker felt “quite traumatised and fearful” after Boros sent her a message that read, “Is this how magistrates and child protection raise kids! You c---s should all be lined up and shot in the f---ing head, and your kids beheaded ...”

Boros argued the message was not a threat, but the jury found him guilty on the lesser charge of using a carriage service to menace.

“I never said I’m going to (kill child protection workers and magistrates). I said I want to,” he said.

Boros told the jury his outburst was an expression of his frustration and disdain for people who work for the government.

“How (else) do you say someone is a lower form of s--?,” he said. “I did try to be offensive in the most offensive way I could.”

Boros further demonstrated his disrespect for others when he referred to a different woman who gave evidence at his trial as “that thing” and told prosecutor Damien Maguire, “You make me sick”.

Boros denied making the threats attributed to him by the worker at the government office and the police officers in May 2016, but the jury did not believe him.

It found he had told the woman he planned to camp outside the home of a bail justice and kill the man, and that two days later he told Sergeant Anthony Reyntjes, “Have you got kids? How about I rape and kill you and your kids”.

Boros was jailed late last year after run-ins with police over noise from the stereo at his home on Sharland Rd.

He has appealed against the four-month sentence he received for those bail breaches, and was put on bail again yesterday to return to court for sentencing on May 3.

Judge Chettle ordered a psychological assessment before that sentencing.