A HISTORY of breaching intervention orders has led to a Cobden man being ordered to do 50 hours community work despite the victim initiating contact and trying to have the charge dropped.
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Alfred Tickner, 56, of Silvester Street, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to breaching an intervention order.
Police said that Tickner had been in a relationship for 18 months which ended in late 2014 and a 12-month intervention order was put in place on December 20, 2014.
On September 15 last year the victim got in touch with Tickner which led to a series of text messages between them.
Ten days later they argued, Tickner sent some highly suggestive text messages and on September 26 she reported the contacts to police.
Officers tried to get in touch with Tickner a dozen times and he was eventually spoken to by police in Cobden.
In February this year the victim got in touch with police, said she there been no more contact with Tickner and she asked for the charge to be withdrawn.
Magistrate Peter Mellas said Tickner had a history of similar offending dating back to 1998, he was fined $1000 in Colac during 2008 and he was back in court during October last year.
He said Tickner had been ignoring court orders for the best part of 20 years and the community was very worried about this sort of offending.
Tickner said he wouldn't do again.
The magistrate said the 50 hours of community work was an alternative to a fortnight in jail.
Mr Mellas said regardless of whether the victim made contact and did not want the matter prosecuted that Tickner had a record of breaching court orders.
