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Former principal Daniel Noel Bralich escapes further jail time after admitting ‘horrible’ stalking of ex-wife, police stand-off
Daniel Bralich leaving court. Picture: The West Australian, Ian Munro
A former primary school principal has avoided further jail time after admitting to a terrifying stalking campaign against his former wife that culminated in a two-hour stand-off with armed police on a normally quiet Perth street.
Daniel Noel Bralich, pictured, was the headmaster of Hillcrest Primary School.
But a spiralling mental breakdown after the break-up of his marriage led police to attempt to serve him with a violence restraining order and confiscate his licensed firearms last June.
When police turned up at his Jolimont address, Bralich was in the grips of a psychotic breakdown and began threatening police that he would “end them”.
The heavily armed tactical response group were called in to negotiate and eventually arrested the 50-year-old after the siege forced the closure of part of Selby Street during peak-hour traffic.
Bralich spent almost seven months in prison on remand and since February has been on strict home detention bail awaiting sentencing over charges of stalking, creating a false belief and breaching a violence restraining order.
That sentence came this week, when Magistrate Deen Potter jailed him for 15 months, suspended for 18 months, saying the things he had said to his wife in up to 50 phone calls a day were “horrible”.
“I’m going to expose all of you, I’m going to shoot you all down, see you lying in the gutter bleeding and then I am going to stamp on your f…ing skull,” Bralich said in one phone call.
“Take 20 years of my emotions and throw them out like they are f…ing s…,” he said in another.
“You are a f…ing toxic animal, you are a f…ing beast.”
Magistrate Potter warned the former educator he needed to take the blame for his own actions and must move on from them.
He also said a string of Facebook messages recently posted by Bralich showed he still had a “long, long way to go”.
Bralich’s lawyer Mark Andrews said undiagnosed depression and misdiagnosed ADHD had contributed to his mental state at the time.
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Koombana boating incident lands man with fine.
THE 46-year-old man involved in a sea biscuit incident in the Koombana Bay ski area where a 15-year-old girl was airlifted to a Perth hospital with serious injuries has been sentenced in court.
Kevin Alan Whyatt faced Magistrate Brian Mahon at the Bunbury Magistrates Court on Monday, February 29.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of culpably driving a conveyance involved directly or indirectly in an incident causing grievous bodily harm.
The charge relates to an incident on January 6 where Whyatt was the skipper of a Sea-Ray 185 sports ski which is an 18-foot vessel with a 220 horsepower in-board motor.
About 1.05pm, Whyatt had six passengers on board his vessel and towed two behind the boat including 15-year-old Amie Lee Clamp and one other 15-year-old boy.
While towing the biscuit, he turned the boat left and then right with the aim of making the biscuits bounce over the waves made by the boat.
About 1.15pm, Whyatt drove the vessel towards the jetty outside of Mash Brewery and turned sharply but the biscuits collided with another vessel moored at the jetty.
The court heard Whyatt breached water regulations by driving the vessel within the regulated 45 metres of a jetty and exceeded the prescribed eight knots per hour limit.
Injuries sustained by the 15-year-old girl included swelling and bleeding on the brain.
The boy was taken to Bunbury Regional Hospital.
There was no victim impact statement read in court and she is expected to make a full recovery.
Whyatt, supported in court by the girl’s father who was also the boat’s spotter on the day, is a father of two with no criminal history.
His lawyer Mark Andrews said Whyatt was selling the vessel and was regretful of the incident.
Magistrate Mahon said while the girl’s father spoke highly of Whyatt, he needed to impose a sentence which was appropriate and also a warning to the community.
“I’m not sure whether this was complacency or oversight but my sentence needs to mark the seriousness of the incidence but also doesn’t crush you,” he said.
“It also needs to make a note for other water users to be safe.
“I can see you have lost a few nights sleep over this.”
Magistrate Mahon acknowledged the family of the young girl there supporting him and also his early plea of guilty.
He fined Whyatt $8000 and ordered him to pay court costs of $88.50.
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