A man charged with crimes including aggravated burglary, intentionally causing injury and handling stolen goods, has been refused bail by the Supreme Court.
Constantinos Kremmos, 36, was arrested on June 24 in relation to an aggravated burglary at a home in Alamanda Boulevard, Point Cook, the previous night.
At a bail hearing, the court was told Kremmos, a female co-accused and an unknown male had gone to the Point Cook house with a homemade shotgun, a baseball bat and a machete. After entering the home, the unidentified male allegedly struck the victim with the baseball bat.
The court was told Kremmos hit the victim to the jaw with the homemade shotgun and opened the shotgun to show that it contained a cartridge.
His female co-accused stole the victim’s iPhone, before asking the victim where his car keys were. The offenders left, Kremmos in the victim’s car.
The court heard the victim and the female co-accused had been involved in a “dispute” that included the distribution of intimate images and videos of the co-accused, allegedly filmed at “swingers parties”, to her family and friends.
The day after the Point Cook incident, police arrested Kremmos outside an Albanvale property. Police executed a search warrant at the house and found a homemade shotgun, a machete, a rifle, property suspected of being the proceeds of crime, six vials of anabolic steroids and a number of glass bottles containing chemicals.
Last Tuesday, the court heard that Kremmos had been in custody since his arrest.
Prosecutors opposed bail on the grounds that Kremmos “would present an unacceptable risk of committing an offence whilst on bail and endangering the safety or welfare of members of the public”.
Judge Mark Weinberg said he considered Kremmos posed “an unacceptable risk of further offending” and refused bail.
But he said the matter would warrant further consideration if there was no court trial of the case until 2019.
