Man told police he was going to cut woman’s throat

Prosecutor Leading Senior Constable Kim Thomson told the court police were called to the dispute between Green and a woman at his house in Mooroopna on January 17 last year.

When they arrived, the woman had left.

Green said to police about the woman “can you get rid of the piece of **** before I kill the ****”, Leading Sen Constable Thomson said.

“If she comes back here I’ll smash her or cut her ******* throat,” Leading Sen Constable Thomson said Green told police.

The court heard, in an interview with police later, Green made partial admissions.

“I was just angry. I wasn’t going to do it,” Leading Sen Constable Thomson said Green told police.

The court heard that in a separate incident on April 26, 2020, Green argued with a different woman about her drug use.

Green punched the woman in the side of her mouth causing her to fall over, Leading Sen Constable Thomson said.

The court heard when police arrived, they found the woman across the road substance affected, crying and shouting.

Green admitted to police that he punched the woman saying he was “sick of … junkies trying to put it over me,” and that the woman was “jealous of other women”.

Green’s solitior Ian Michaelson told the court alcohol was a common feature in his client’s offending and that he drank “six long necks” of beer a day.

He said Green’s regulation of his behaviour was a “work in progress”.

Mr Michelson also told how his client had lived in boys homes as a child and described himself as “institutionalised”.

In sentencing Green, Magistrate David Faram said Green had come from a “terrible background”.

He also said alcohol explained Green’s lack of control, but did not excuse it.

Green was sentenced to 12-month community corrections order.

It includes 50 hours of community work as well as treatment and rehabilitation for alcohol abuse.

Mr Faram ordered that any time spent in treatment could be counted as community work hours.