A 23-year-old Cowra man has been given 12 month good behaviour bonds at Cowra Local Court after being charged with intimidating and resisting members of the local police force.
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Braydan Anthony Farrell-Gray was before the court charged with the two counts which also involved him making a death threat against an officer.
According to police facts around 8pm on April 25 police were returning to the Cowra Police Station when they noticed four men leaving a nearby club. As they were looking at the group, one of the men yelled out “there’s the pigs”.
Police continued to watch the group enter a vehicle and heard one male yell “keep going you ****ing pigs”.
Police stopped in front of the vehicle and spoke to the driver and passengers asking who had called out.
While police were taking the details of the person who had called out, Farrell-Grey became abusive from inside the vehicle and started arguing with police.
He handed over his licence and as police were taking his details continued to be abusive and argumentative. Police informed him he would placed under arrest for hindering police.
As they attempted to arrest him, Farrell-Gray broke free and started running away. As police caught him he started to wrestle with them before he was eventually placed under arrest.
Police then took him back to their vehicle where he refused to enter and police had to use force to place him in the vehicle.
Police then took him to the police station where he refused to exit the vehicle and had to be forced out of the vehicle.
While inside the station he continued to be abusive and uncooperative and began wrestling with police yelling at an officer, “tough *****, I know where you live ****er, I am going to ****ing kill you when you get home tonight. I will be waiting there, you’re gone.”
Farrell-Gray’s solicitor Geoff Casey told the court his client had believed police were being unfair to his friend and he had overreacted.
However Magistrate Michael O’Brien said Farrell-Gray’s behaviour was an utter disgrace and he should hang his head in shame.
“People are often before the court charged with violent offences and sit meekly in the dock, a completely different person to the one that brought them before the court,” he said.
“You didn’t like something and you threatened an officer, how dare you,” Magistrate O’Brien said.
