No bail for ‘narcissist’

Magistrate pans hoaxer

A MAN who sparked an unprecedented shutdown of the Brisbane Airport when he allegedly told police he had a bomb packed with C-4 explosives that had a 500 metre blast radius has been refused bail.

Magistrate Suzette Coates yesterday slammed the 50year-old Surfers Paradise man’s actions as “narcissistic” over the February incident in which he allegedly pulled a “huge serrated knife” on his partner and their children as they attempted to board a flight.

The man allegedly placed a package on a table in the international airport’s food court and claimed it was a bomb and at one point told police to shoot him in front of his family.

Ms Coates said it was alleged the man told police the “bomb” had a 500m blast radius and the airport was evacuated and shut down. He is accused of telling officers that he would not detonate the bomb if he could take his two children and fly to Egypt.

“Imagine the terror of this woman and her family … for him to turn up at the airport and behave like this in front of the two children,” the magistrate said.

“He pulled a knife, told them there was a bomb, then he wanted the police to shoot him. It’s an extraordinary system of facts for which everybody else on the planet other than him has been greatly inconvenienced at his own narcissism in wanting to either kill himself in front of his family.

“He was just happy to see if the police would take him out in front of his two children, it’s an extraordinary, shall we say bizarre, approach to one’s children and one’s family.”

Ms Coates said the affidavit filed as part of the bail application showed the man “obviously holds views that he has a right to behave like this to his family”.

The man, who is facing a string of charges including two counts of making false statement to damage or destroy and two of making a bomb hoax, was refused bail and his case will be mentioned next month.