The 56-year-old made a series of threats against police and had a long history of minor offences, culminating in the loss of his driver’s licence in 2022
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Dez's pathetic run of really piddly traffic offences, stretching back 30 years show a pattern that really needs to be taken into account in criminal psychology, the correlation between men ( not so much women ) being genetically unable to adhere to road rules, of all sorts...licence stuff, car stuff, road stuff.. it's all grist to their mad mill, it all MUST be flouted, ,some deep emotional need is satisfied by being pulled up and pulled over for silly preventable stuff....
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''''''''''He said they had always lived in the Alpine shire, and the family’s only source of income was a Centrelink payment.
Freeman referred to “seven years of harassment and persecution by malicious police”, despite the court extract showing that over this period he only faced one charge, and had it withdrawn, and also succeeded in having a speeding fine withdrawn.
Freeman said in his submissions he had his “firearms licenses cancelled and lost my club membership” as a result of the driving matter, also claiming “we endured 4 acts of criminal trespass and harassment on our home by police and I have been dragged through 4 years of court hearings”.
He said he had to pay more than $2,300 to have his wife’s van returned after it was “stolen” by police, a likely reference to the vehicle being impounded.
Freeman, whose bid for the supreme court review of his driving convictions failed, wrote towards the end of his submissions: “I hope I didn’t get too off track or be abrasive but I’m just doing the best that I can under extreme duress with what sanity I have left.”
He had been granted permission to drive while his appeal was outstanding, and the court records show he was c
onvicted and fined in December 2023 for driving at 71km/h in a 60km/h zone in June that year.
He was fined $450 with $90 costs. The magistrate in the case was Peter Dunn, who
Freeman previously attempted to arrest.
( it didn't seem to cross Dez's tiny mind that there was another way around it.. adhere to the rules of the road, simples.... )