A WARRNAMBOOL man has been jailed after he drove at a woman who was trying to help him.
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John Wayne Kellermeier, 41, of Queens Road, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to trashing his public housing home as well as serious driving and assault offences.
He refused to participate in a community corrections order and was jailed for six months. He has already spent 54 days in custody.
Police said Kellermeier was on bail after trashing his public housing home on August 30 last year and was due to appear in court on October 24. Two days before the hearing, Kellermeier was driving down Pertobe Road in a white ute when items started falling from the back of the vehicle.
A woman stopped to pick up some of the items.
Kellermeier stopped him vehicle and the woman approached him with the goods. He then drove straight at her, the court heard. The woman took evasive action to avoid being hit.
Kellermeier left the scene and, soon after, parked on the Raglan Parade median strip between Liebig and Kepler streets. The woman approached him again and he in turn urinated on the ground near her.
By the time police arrived, Kellermeier had returned to his car and used his fists and head to smash windows from inside of the vehicle.
Police instructed him to get out of the ute and he refused. Police then assisted him out of the ute. Kellermeier also declined to complete an alcohol breath test.
Police checks revealed the ute was unregistered and had false registration plates and Kellermeier was an unlicensed driver.
Police also allege Kellermeier continually resisted officers, misbehaved and caused damage by headbutting a plaster wall in the police station.
He was charged with reckless conduct endangering serious injury, a range of driving offences, causing criminal damage, offensive behaviour and assaulting police.
Magistrate Cynthia Toose heard Kellermeier and his partner had mental health issues.
