A man alleged to have choked his former-partner while she worked as an escort and helped hide a prison attack with a home-made knife has been denied bail.
Jye Manning Brown, 24, is accused of a number of violent offences in October and November 2022, including breaking into his ex-girlfriend's home while she was providing services as a sex worker with a client.
According to crown facts filed in the case, Brown allegedly threatened the client, grabbed his former partner by the neck, put a knife to her throat and threatened to rape her and her child.
In October 2022, he is also accused of assaulting his brother by hitting him in the face with part of a video game.
He was on parole at the time after being convicted of separate offences involving assault and contravention of an apprehended violence order.
While police were searching for Brown regarding the alleged assault of his brother and former-partner, he used a knife to remove an electronic monitoring device he was required to wear on parole.
After his arrest, he was incarcerated again.
When a fellow inmate attacked another prisoner with a home-made knife in May this year, Brown is alleged to have helped conceal the offence and hide the weapon.
On Tuesday, the Coffs Harbour man appeared by video link from the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre at Silverwater in Sydney and applied unsuccessfully for bail in the NSW Supreme Court.
Justice Robert Beech-Jones noted Brown's vulnerabilities as a young Indigenous man with undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder, ADHD, anxiety and moderate intellectual disability.
However, the 24-year-old's history caused concern to the judge who ruled that allowing Brown to remain free, even on effective house arrest at a supervised care home, would be too risky to the community.
"Despite his youth, (Brown) has an extremely long history of the commission of criminal offences, many of which involve violence of a serious nature in a domestic context," Justice Beech-Jones said.
A hearing for the assault charge involving the brother has been scheduled for August 14 at Coffs Harbour Local Court.
The other two sets of allegations are still ongoing with a hearing yet to be scheduled.
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