A man who smashed a woman's phone with a tomahawk when she refused to play a Kenny Rogers song has been convicted in Orange Local Court and ordered to abstain from alcohol.
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On December 29, Trevor Ian Crawford, 55, of Jilba Street, and a woman were drinking and listening to music on her phone at Robertson Park.
However, at 7pm he asked her to play Kenny Rogers on the phone and when she refused he snatched the phone from her hand and took a small axe from his bag and used it to smash the screen.
Magistrate David Day gave him an 18-month supervised community correction order for damaging property and another for possession of the tomahawk, which was forfeited.
It would be handy if you turned up to court today out of respect for the court, sober.
- Magistrate David Day
He was also given an 18-month community correction order for burning the perspex on a dock at Orange Police Station on December 27.
The bonds all included a requirement for rehabilitation and treatment and abstaining from alcohol.
Crawford was intoxicated in court and Mr Day said if he doesn't stop drinking he will kill himself.
"It would be handy if you turned up to court today out of respect for the court, sober," Mr Day said.
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According to police, Crawford was placed in the dock to sober up because there was no where else to take him but he produced a lighter from his pocket and held it to the perspex causing the it bubble, compromising the dock for further use.
After the lighter was taken from him police offered to take him to the toilet and he declined but when the door was closed he demanded to be placed in the cells so he could lie down.
Police refused and he said, "if you don't put me in the f***ing cells I'm going to p*** everywhere" and then when police ignored him he urinated in the dock, which had to be forensically cleaned.
His offences were in breach of a good-behaviour bond and a suspended jail sentence he was given for offensive behaviour and for common assault in March 2018.
The bonds were revoked and he was re-sentenced to a two-year supervised community correction order and a nine-month intensive correction order.
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