Kevin Knowles, also known as Kevin Doherty, 42, of Atkinson Street, pleaded guilty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court yesterday to 16 offences mostly involving breaches of intervention orders.

A previously suspended eight-month jail sentence was activated and another six months added. He’s served 117 days in custody so will have to spend another 10 months in prison. 

Such is Knowles’ lack of regard for court orders that when released on bail and banned from using a mobile phone, he contacted Koroit police on his mobile phone a number of times. 

Police said that an intervention order was put in place during May last year banning Knowles and his partner from being together, but when he was released from Port Phillip Prison on January 30 this year she picked him up.

In early February he went to her home to get a bag and in early March they travelled to Devonport together on holidays before they argued and police were called.

On April 1 they were both at Knowles’ home. They were drinking and he chased the woman, told her to get off his property and she fled to a neighbour’s home.

Police were called, they attended and a drunk Knowles told them to “f... off” and come back the next day. 

Officers used capsicum spray on Knowles which had little affect.

He was released on bail on April 3 but failed to comply with a curfew, being seen by an off-duty police officer at Mailors Flat in the early morning.

His bail conditions include he not use a mobile phone. Police noted that when Knowles went to the Koroit police station with a friend he was talking on a mobile phone.

In mid July police went to his Kirkstall home but he wasn’t home. Knowles then telephoned the Koroit police station a number of times on a mobile phone wanting to know what they wanted.

A solicitor said that Knowles had been involved in an entrenched domestic violence lifestyle for most of his adult life.

Knowles told the court he hadn’t consumed alcohol since April. He said he would not give evidence against the woman who has been charged with offences after an incident on August 9 when his glass eye was smashed and his cheekbone fractured.

She claims to have acted in self-defence when she hit Knowles with a table while he was allegedly strangling her.

Magistrate Michael Coghlan said Knowles had a long history of beaching IVOs and causing harm to people.