A person charged with threatening to kill a federal member of parliament, bombarding her with harassing telephone calls and emails, made the threats from a wholly totally different state, police allege.
Australian Federal Police charged Simon Geoffrey Raymond, 39, with sending threatening and harassing emails to Nationals MP Anne Webster, who holds the seat of Mallee in Victoria.
Mr Raymond was charged after he was arrested at Brisbane Worldwide Airport on July 11.
He’s going through two counts of utilizing a carriage service to threaten to kill and 5 counts of menace, utilizing a carriage service to harass or trigger offence.
Police allege in court docket paperwork Mr Raymond despatched the threats to kill and harassing emails and telephone calls to the Malle MP in March and April.
It’s alleged the threatening messages got here from Darwin, within the Northern Territory.
Two of the alleged threats to kill have been made on April 14.
Police allege Mr Raymond’s use of a carriage service was thought-about harassing and menacing as a result of there have been “repeated earlier emails addressed to Dr Webster” and due to the tone and language used.
One e-mail on March 6 “was addressed to a big group of medical professionals in Australia and abroad”, they allege.
A telephone name on April 25 is alleged to have been associated to Mr Raymond in search of medical help.
Mr Raymond was granted bail in Brisbane Magistrates Courtroom on Monday after the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions workplace raised no objections to his launch situations.
Mr Raymond should report back to police on Monday to Friday.
His matter will return to court docket on August 18.
Following Mr Raymond’s arrest on July 11, AFP Commander Naomi Binstead stated the AFP took all studies concerning the protection and safety of Australian excessive workplace holders critically.
“The AFP helps political expression and freedom of speech, however when it results in prison behaviour – together with threats and harassment – it won’t be tolerated,” she stated.
“The AFP has world-leading expertise to determine people who break the legislation by harassing, menacing or threatening Commonwealth officers.”
