Man ‘choked mum’
Three DV cases in court on one day
A MAN accused of choking his own mother has been granted bail after promising to have no contact with the woman.
It came on a day in which three Gold Coasters appeared in Southport Magistrates Court for domestic violence offences. The cases are separate. A 31-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with choking.
It is alleged the man argued with his mother about whether he would help his elderly grandmother up after she fell in their Southport home.
He is accused of then choking his mother.
Defence lawyer Lisa Searing, of Buckland Allen Criminal Lawyers, said the man denied putting his hands on his mother.
She said the man had only just reconnected with his mother after 11 years of no contact. Ms Searing said he was happy to have no contact with her again.
Magistrate Gary Finger granted bail on the condition he live at a Beenleigh address and have no contact with his mother. The matter will return to court on January 25.
Another case involved a man who twice breached conditions of a domestic violence order, including one time when he blocked police and Department of Child Safety officers from his former partner’s home. At the time she sneaked out the back with their five children to avoid Child Safety officers.
The man was fined $1400 and sentenced to a month’s prison wholly suspended after he pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching a domestic violence order and one count of failing to appear in court.
The man will appear in court next month for allegedly hitting his partner during a sexual encounter.
In another breach of a domestic violence order, a 53-year-old Robina woman was released on bail after being found in her former partner’s home.
Defence lawyer Lisa Searing said the woman was “too embarrassed” to contact police to help her remove her items from the home. Under the domestic violence order, she was only to enter the home to remove her possessions in the presence of police.
Ms Searing said the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had permission from her former partner to pack up her possessions while he watched cricket with friends. When the woman was taking too long the man called police.
Magistrate Gary Finger ordered the woman have no contact with the man and get another person to pick up her boxes. He granted bail and adjourned the case to January 25.