Former Chase host Andrew O’Keefe returned to Downing Centre Local Court for the continuation of a listening to over costs together with widespread assault, assault occasioning precise bodily hurt, resisting a police officer and contravening an AVO.
The costs, which he denies, relate to an alleged incident in September 2021.
Police physique digicam footage confirmed a number of angles of an arrest.
In the footage O’Keefe says he’s been involved with police and had made plans to make a press release along with his lawyer the next Monday.
But the scenario then seems to deteriorate when O’Keefe insists he must retrieve his treatment, referring to being “with out it for 3 days final time”.
“This is a quite simple request, why are you being such f***ing Nazis about it?” O’Keefe yells.
As the argument about retrieving treatment continues, he complains a few elementary denial of human rights and calls police “idiots”.
Officers take him into the hallway and place handcuffs on him, and he’s advised to “cease resisting”.
“I’m not resisting, I simply wish to get my f***ing meds,” he mentioned.
O’Keefe complains about his head being “pushed” towards a wall, to which an officer replies that O’Keefe was spitting.
“I’m not spitting on you,” he mentioned.
“It’s a f***ing police state we stay in.”
In an elevator, he complained about his remedy and demanded the names of the officers.
Outside, he’s searched and put at the back of a police truck.
“This is a f***ing outrage,” he mentioned, complaining about his handcuffs being too tight.
“Seriously, my fingers are f***ing numb.”
One officer once more tells him to “settle down”.
O’Keefe replies: “You reduce my blood provide, I’m purported to be calm.”
Another part of footage confirmed O’Keefe in a police station complaining about beforehand being “pushed” towards the wall.
Chief Inspector Gary Coffey advised the Justice of the Peace the accused was arrested as a result of he was needed for breaching an AVO and an assault, which constituted severe alleged offences.
Family-friend of O’Keefe’s for 45 years, Daniel Moscari, advised the courtroom when he spoke to his good friend in early October and discovered in regards to the costs, he felt he needed to come ahead and confess in regards to the drug possession.
“It was my stuff, not his,” Mr Moscari advised the courtroom.
Mr Moscari advised the courtroom he had gone to O’Keefe’s condo in December 2021 for “pre-Christmas drinks” and had taken with him the bag of medicine, which have been colored gentle brown.
Sergeant Cleaver put to him the chance he had come to courtroom to provide false proof to guard his good friend, O’Keefe.
“Absolutely not,” Mr Moscari mentioned.
“I’ve simply come out of custody I don’t wish to have one other drug cost…I’ve an ethical compass.”
O’Keefe has pleaded responsible to the AVO breach, however denies guilt in relation to the opposite costs.
Police beforehand withdrew six costs towards O’Keefe over a separate, January 2022 incident at his condo after the alleged sufferer and sole prosecution witness left the nation.
In that case, police alleged O’Keefe choked a 38-year-old girl earlier than punching and kicking her.
The listening to continues.
Source: ABC, Daily Telegraph
