Charlie William Clark, 27, previously of Kirrae Avenue, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Warrnambool County Court to two counts of unlawful imprisonment and making threats to kill and single offences of recklessly causing serious injury, intentionally causing injury, assault, breaching an intervention order and resisting police.

Clark has already served about 300 days in custody.

He was on parole at the time of the offending, which breached a nine-month suspended jail term, and some of the crimes classify him as a violent offender.

He claims to currently be in protective custody because the victim has friends in prison and he owes drug debts.

Crown prosecutor Justin Lewis said a 31-year-old Warrnambool woman and Clark met in December 2012 and were friends but Clark wanted to develop a romantic  relationship.

On January 21 last year Clark went to the woman’s home, drank alcohol and then went to a bedroom where he produced a bag of white powder and a needle and injected himself while forcing the woman to watch.

Clark then became increasingly aggressive and the woman said he turned into a different person, exploding with rage.

Clark charged towards the woman, grabbed her by the throat, threw her to the ground and choked her until she thought she was going to die. He then slapped her with both hands before punching her four times to the face.

He told the woman he might as well finish her off and pushed her head into a plaster wall, punched and kneed her and kicked her to the ribs. 

The woman was screaming and crying hysterically when Clark grabbed her by the throat, lifted her off the ground and slammed her backwards.

He told the petrified woman he was going to have to kill her and grabbed a knife, held it to her throat then put it to his own throat but said “I can’t do it”. 

Clark then put his arms around the victim and held her without moving for three or four hours. She said she was in extreme pain but felt like she couldn’t go anywhere until Clark left about 7am the next day.

The woman attended hospital suffering injuries to an eye, arm, leg and a displaced fractured rib.

Mid-last year Clark was released from custody and on July 6 tried to contact the woman 100 times in 24 hours and sent a text message threatening to kill her. Clark went to the woman’s home and appeared affected by drugs and alcohol. He threatened a male friend of the woman’s who was at the address and they had a physical altercation.

After the man left Clark grabbed the woman by the ears and headbutted her before trying to bite her lips, saying that no one else would want to look at her.

Clark spat in the woman’s face and when she ran out the door he chased and tackled her, forcing her back inside the house and telling her to cuddle him or would smash her head in.

On July 21 last year Clark again turned up at the woman’s home, refused to leave and stayed for a couple of days. At one stage he said: “I’m f...ing Charlie Clark, don’t you know who I am.”

He then punched the woman to the face, slapped her and scratched her face, eye and lips.

On November 11 an intervention order was put in place banning Clark from contacting the woman, but between November 13 and 24 he tried to ring her 16 times and texted her 11 times.

When Clark was arrested on December 4 last year he was aggressive, tried to sprint out a door and had to be restrained with handcuffs.

Judge Mark Gamble said if Clark could not stay away from drugs and alcohol there was a strong chance he would reoffend. He said the incidents must have been terrifying for the victim and Clark had a history of similar offending.