Defence takes the cake
Jealous Corio man took weapons to woman’s home
A MAN who took a bat, knife and hatchet to a woman’s house told police he wanted to make her a birthday cake, a court has heard.
Corio man Joseph Delac, 31, faced Geelong Magistrates Court and entered a plea of guilty to several charges, including using a prohibited weapon, trespassing and criminal damage.
Police submitted that a jealous Delac turned up at a woman’s house after calling her 71 times from a private number and leaving 51 voice messages.
Delac began banging on the front door and yelling, begging the woman to let him in and demanding to know why she did not want to see him.
The woman said she opened the internal door, but left the external wire door closed, and identified an “erratic” Delac.
H e grabbed hold of the wire in the door and ripped it open, causing the wire and the wood of the door to break.
When he made his way into the property, the woman said he was holding a bat that was approximately 25cm long and was dark metal in colour.
Police later found Delac at his property and executed a search of the vehicle he used to drive to the woman’s house.
In it, they located an extendible baton that Delac claimed to have just found, a folding knife and a hatchet.
He told police he “wanted to make a cake for her birthday” and claimed the damage to her property was caused by the victim herself.
When taken to the police station, Delac claimed to have his mother’s phone number in his phone and he wanted to show police where it was.
But Delac refused to hand back the phone once he found the number and attempted to delete messages from it.
When police struggled to grab the phone from him,
Delac broke it in half, rendering it inoperable.
In a separate incident, Delac was also accused of sending 13 text messages to a separate woman that included a number of threats, including that he was “gonna (sic) slash your tyres you s--- c---.”
Delac will return to Geelong Magistrates Court at a later date, after he has been assessed for a community corrections order.