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2nd Assault by my neighbor Craig

I have again been assault by my Neighbor Craig. On 07/10/2008 I went to the Capalaba Police Station and gave a statement to Constable Searston that on September 5th 2008 I had again been assaulted by Craig. I gave Constable Searston a statutory declaration of a witness to the event. Constable Searston has visited Craig and Craig refused to make a statement. On Friday 7th of November Craig was given a notice to appear, by the police, at Cleveland Court on the 11th of December 2008. I am very interested to see how this is handled by the Police Prosecution and Magistrate. I`ve been charged, arrested and convicted 3 times for public nuisance including disorderly behavior, offending a police officer, obstruction of a police officer. None of which was true. I will be following this very closely to see if Craig is prosecuted with the same aggressiveness for physical assault that I was for all of the above lies.

And Queensland Mental Health does nothing but tell you to phone the police if the mental patient dosen`t improve. An injustice system.

There is a premise that if you live in a society you obey the laws of that society.

Craig has pleaded not guilty and a hearing date has been set for 9 am the 19th of August 2009.

The Magistrate referred the matter to the Dispute Resolution of Justice Mediation and I objected to this as it was impossible to have any meaningful mediation with a mentally ill person but the Magistrate insisted. I attended a meeting with a justice mediation officer and they phoned me a week later saying they could not mediate the problem.

Update; Hearing date has been set for the 4th of May 2010 Court #20, Brisbane Magistrates Court at 9 AM.

Update on 2nd assault 08/05/2010

The persecutor Sergeant Troy Newman reduced the charge from common assault to public nuisance due to "insufficiency of evidence". I repeatedly told him I did not want the charge reduced and I wanted the Magistrate to know I was dead set against this, but the persecutor refused stating; He could not win the charge of assault for two reasons. The witness would not be credible because he was a friend of mine and it was a phone hook up and this was also not credible. My life is in danger from this mentally ill person and I have no recourse. When I asked the Sergeant what Star Chamber makes these decision he said his boss Inspector Ede agreed with the reduced charge. Craig was put on a 6 month Peace and good behavior bond which is meaningless due to Craig mental condition.

I sure got it right when I call it an INJUSTICE SYSTEM.

Update; 3rd assault 01/03/2010 again with a witness Craig is yet to be charged.

I paid $74.00 for a "Peace and good behavior order" against Craig on February 26th, 2010, but the Magistrate would not grant the order until after the hearing for the 2nd assault on 04/05/2010.

Update 18/03/2011 Craig was found guilty of assault and put on a good behavior bond of $300.00 for 6 months. Interestingly when the persecution handed up Craig`s known history to the magistrate it was one inch or (25 mm ) thick. This gives weight to my first police statement of 26/01/2005 that Housing Queensland workers and mental health workers as well as the police knew what his behavior was like when they moved Gary to Cleveland. Housing Queensland then moved Craig into that unit. They told Gary it would quieter in Cleveland.