Qld: Constituent ram raids MP

AAP General News (Australia)
01-18-2000
Qld: Constituent ram raids MP

A court in Brisbane's heard an angry constituent stalked his local MP, contacted his
office on dozens of occasions over a period of years, and ended up driving his ute into
his electoral office.

A prosecutor told a Brisbane District Court jury today that KENNETH ROY AUSTIN first
began contacting Queensland Labor MP TERRY SULLIVAN's electoral office in 1991.

His introductory words to the electoral secretary were: I'm a paranoid schizophrenic
and ... prone to extreme violence if provoked.

Office staff had logged all of AUSTIN's lengthier contacts with them, …