A man confronted his ex-partner’s colleague at work and accused him of sleeping with her, a court has heard.
The 50-year-old Goulburn Valley man pleaded guilty in Shepparton Magistrates’ Court to unlawful assault, using a carriage service to harass and contravening a family violence order.
He also pleaded guilty to driving while suspended, driving while disqualified, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving across a divided line to do a U-turn and stopping in a loading zone.
Prosecutor Luke Lund told the court the man went to his ex-partner’s workplace and asked her colleague “are you ****ing my missus?”, before telling him “you’re lucky I don’t bash the **** out of you”.
The woman, who had broken up with the accused and had an intervention order out against him for one and a half years, told police she just wanted him to “leave me alone”, Sen Constable Lund said.
The woman was not at work at the time, but later she heard a motorbike — that she believed he was riding — arrive at her home, before receiving texts from him that said he had just come to give her money.
When interviewed by police, the man told them he had just seen the woman’s colleague at his workplace as he was driving past and “thought I’d have a quick yarn”, Sen Constable Lund said.
However, the accused told police at the time he “didn’t threaten him technically”.
He also said he did not know the intervention order his former partner of 10 years had taken out against him was “still current”.
In a separate incident, police caught the man riding a motorbike on Kialla Lakes Dve in Kialla on January 30 last year on a suspended licence and with no number plates on the motorbike.
He told police he did not know his licence was suspended nine days earlier due to demerit points.
He also told police he thought there was a number plate on the motorbike and it “must have fallen off due to being a bit damaged”, Sen Constable Lund said.
On August 18 last year the man was caught as he did a U-turn over double white lines at 3.15pm on High St, Shepparton, and parked in front of the National Australia Bank building.
He also had a disqualified licence and his vehicle was not registered.
The man’s solicitor Kristina Katija told the court the man was a carer for his elderly mother, and was diagnosed with ADHD but was not on medication for it.
Magistrate Tara Hartnett described the offence against his ex-partner as “a disgraceful bit of offending”.
“You approached him (the work colleague) with allegations in a disgusting manner,” she said.
Ms Hartnett also said the man had an “unimpressive driving record” and told him not to drive when he was disqualified.
The man was fined a total of $1900.