A “SPIRITUAL officer” who assaulted an emergency services worker while on duty and threatened to firebomb a family member’s car has been jailed.
Mildura Magistrates’ Court this week heard that Raymond John Terrick was suffering a mental health episode when Ambulance Victoria members were called to assist police to sedate him in April.
When the female ambulance officer was preparing to treat Terrick, he approached her and spat on her stomach.
In a separate incident, Terrick also went to a house in Robinvale, where two women were smoking cannabis, and he was given $40 to source more of the drug but never returned.
The women went searching for Terrick and found him on Warlen Avenue. He then became aggressive and punched one of the females to the face and pushed her away.
Just days later, while looking for copies of his recent police interview discs, he became verbally abusive, erratic and aggressive towards another woman and threatened to assault her, saying: “I’m going to smash you in the face.”
The woman called police, however Terrick left the area before they arrived.
About 6pm on April 28 this year, Terrick again became violent towards a female and began punching the driver’s side window of her car while she was inside and threatened to firebomb the car before police arrived and arrested him.
The following day, while in the Mildura police cells, Terrick threw wet toilet paper at a security camera in his cell, urinated on the floor and under the door and performed an obscene act while looking at the camera.
He also used a cup to throw toilet water over the floor, ceiling and walls and while he was doing that he said “f*** the TV, I’m bored”.
Terrick’s defence counsel said her client was suffering a mental health episode, which was why an ambulance was initially called before the assault on the emergency services worker, however he was now medicated.
Magistrate Michael Coghlan jailed Terrick for an aggregate 44 days with time already served and ordered him to complete a community corrections order that he had breached by failing to comply.
