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January 23, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 41-year-old interstate truck driver who became obsessed with a woman who did not want to have a long-term relationship with him sent her more than 500 text messages, Kingaroy Magistrates Court was told today.<\/p>\n

The man, who lives in Kingaroy, also called her landline and mobile phone hundreds of times at all hours of the night and day after they had spent a night together.<\/p>\n

He also put multiple posts on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n

Police Prosecutor Sgt Wayne Bushell said the text messages had ranged from friendly and polite to menacing, and had included threats to kill himself by crashing his truck into a tree.<\/p>\n

There was also evidence many of the messages had been sent while the man was driving his B-double on interstate runs from Brisbane.<\/p>\n

Sgt Bushell said the man, who pleaded guilty to stalking, had also driven his truck to the woman’s house and just parked it in the street outside.<\/p>\n

When the woman blocked him on Facebook, changed her phone and moved house, the man contacted her brother and asked him to pass on messages.<\/p>\n

Sgt Bushell said as the harassment continued, the woman’s entire family was in fear and her 13-year-old daughter was put into counselling.<\/p>\n

The man also pleaded guilty to charges of using a telephone service to harass two other people: another woman and a man who knew both other victims.<\/p>\n

The truck driver sent more than 500 text messages to this second woman and phoned her hundreds of times to “air his grievances” and make threats about self-harming.<\/p>\n

He also sent a “significant amount” of text messages to the third victim, a man who was friends with both women, and phoned his home to make threats.<\/p>\n

Sgt Bushell said the truck driver was arrested on November 23 last year and his mobile phone seized and the messages downloaded.<\/p>\n

He said the pattern of behaviour was extremely disturbing because the man had been previously \u00a0convicted in 2011 of stalking another woman and sentenced to a term in jail.<\/p>\n

Magistrate Mark Bucknall said the charges were very concerning.<\/p>\n

He sentenced the truck driver to 12 months jail on the stalking charge.<\/p>\n

On the two telephone charges, he placed the man on 12 months probation with strict conditions which will be implemented upon his release from prison.<\/p>\n

He fixed a parole release date of April 24.<\/p>\n

Magistrate Bucknall also issued a restraining order that the man make no contact directly or indirectly with the first woman, not attend her residence or any place of employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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