A Waverley man who was granted bail just last month allegedly threatened to kill a woman who was supposed to be protected by an interim police family violence order.
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Robert Craig Williams, 37, has an 18-month jail sentence hanging over his head in relation to a drug treatment order imposed in the Supreme Court in Launceston on February 8, 2022.
A condition of the order is that he commit no imprisonable offence.
Mr Williams was granted bail on March 18, 2022 by Magistrate Sharon Cure with a substantial surety.
After further alleged offences Mr Williams was remanded in custody on Monday after he appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Leanne Topfer.
He appeared on drugs charges including possession of ice and cannabis and possession of a glass smoking device on March 18.
Mr Williams has also been charged with a welter of family violence charges alleged between March 25, 2022 and April 5, 2022.
An interim family violence order was made in the court on February 25 that he not approach a certain woman.
He faces two counts of breach of the interim family violence order and breach of bail on March 25.
There is a separate alleged breach of the same order on March 27, 2022 by entering the woman's home.
Mr Williams also faces charges of driving while disqualified, evading police and negligent driving on March 27.
Police allege he disobeyed a traffic light at the the corner of George and York streets, drove at 70kmh in a 50 zone and drove into the path of oncoming vehicles and against the flow of traffic in George St.
Mr Williams also faces two breaches of the interim family violence order and breach of bail on April 2, breach of the order and breach of bail on April 3.
Police allege that on April 5 Mr Williams breached the order by threatening the woman by saying, "wait until I see you next, I'm going to kill you" and "you'll have to come home at some stage".
Police also allege that he called her a "f---ing dog" when he breached bail by telephoning her.
The month before Mr Williams faced two counts of breaching a family violence order and common assault on February 22, 2022 when he allegedly also called her a "f---ing dog" and pinned her to a mattress with his body.
He also allegedly said to her: "You are going to put out, I am going to get what's mine and what I have been thinking about for the last twelve months".
Mr Williams did not plead to the latest charges. He was remanded in custody to reappear on April 21, 2022.
Last year Mr Williams was jailed for eight months by Ms Cure after being found guilty of driving at two police officers in a lane in the Launceston CBD.
Early this year a Supreme Court judge Robert Pearce order that a Waverley woman forfeit $7000 of a $10,000 surety that she had put up for Mr Williams.
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Nick Clark
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
I am the Supreme and Magistrates Court reporter for the Examiner for the past 18 months. My journalism career has clicked over 30 years and encompasses four different spells at Tasmanian newspapers.
