MAKING vicious threats and breaching an intervention order has led to a drug user being jailed again for almost three months.
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Robert Phillip Kardum, 26, also known as Chatfield, previously of Warrnambool and Noble Park, pleaded guilty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court to making a threat to kill, making a threat to inflict serious injury, committing an offence while on bail and beaching an intervention order.
Police said that Kardum was admitted to Warrnambool Base Hospital at 10.30pm on April 25 after taking up to a dozen sleeping tablets.
At 5.30am the next morning Kardum told a hospital staff member he would smash another man's head into the ground until it was flat and that he would slit the man's throat and dump his body.
When interviewed by police Kardum said he would stomp the other man's head in and he was getting ready to go to jail "over that dog".
Kardum's then girlfriend took out an intervention order but on May 7 he went around to her home and said he wanted to go to bed with her.
She asked him to leave, attempted to call triple 0 but Kardum said he would get someone to come and get him but that person never arrived.
The woman texted a friend to call police, the friend called triple 0, but an unknown third party heard that police were responding over a scanner and contacted Kardum.
He became enraged, but police officers soon after arrived.
The woman told them Kardum was on a drug bender and when he was like that she was petrified of him.
Kardum said the woman had asked for milk, smokes and chocolate and he took that around because he loved her.
Defence counsel Kiernan Celestina said his client had not attempted self harm with the sleeping tablets, he claimed he never threatened the woman but admitted he had fallen back into drug use after being released from prison.
In December last year Kardum was arrested in Warrnambool with the assistance of the Victoria Police air wing helicopter after seven high-risk public safety incidents in six weeks.
During February he pleaded guilty in the Koori division of the Warrnambool court to 20 offences including three counts of dangerous driving while being pursued by police.
He was jailed for two months and placed on a CCO with rehabilitation conditions including a placement in an Aboriginal detoxification facility.
This week magistrate Michael Coghlan jailed Kardum for 82 days after he had spent 76 days in custody which means he will be eligible for release at the weekend.
The CCO is still in place and it is hoped Kardum will be able to take up the rehabilitation opportunities when he gets out of custody.
The magistrate said he didn't want to write off Kardum's rehabilitation prospects but he was getting close to doing so and after two spells in custody this year it was hoped "the penny had dropped".