WARNING: Graphic Language
A man has threatened to kill a sex worker he was seeing for 11 years and recently broke into a rage and sent her many racist voice messages.
They were so “obscene, blasphemous” and “deeply offensive” that a magistrate refused to read them in a packed courtroom.
David Robertson has been charged with using a carriage service to threaten the life of a sex worker.
He has pleaded guilty to the act that he performed on someone he considered a friend.
He has been described as a customer of an inner-west Sydney brother for 15 years, seeing one regular worker for 1 hour a week, for 11 years.
He had described his relationship as business but admitted he felt "a special bond" with her.
She refused to answer many of his phone calls, and when she did, he was always asking what he did wrong and why she no longer contacted him.
In February, she stopped answering him altogether, as he escalated the verbally abusive behaviour in "dozens of voice messages."
“These voice messages contained obscene, blasphemous and racist language."
He had sent 9 expletive-riddled messages that began at 6:22AM on March 21st, calling her an "Asian sl*t pig" and telling her it was "redemption day."
“I’m going to f**k your world today motherf**ker, all you had to do is be my friend, now I’m going to f**k yous (sic) all."
“You f**king stupid Asian f**king peasant pigs, now you are going to f**king pay with your f**king life you c**t.”
He continued to say he was going to kill her and said "today is the end of your life."
The messages last around two hours, with another around 6:30AM with him saying he was "coming for her" and he was going to make her life "a f**king misery."
“I’m going to make so much trouble for you … I hate your f**king guts. You’re dead.”
Three minutes later he left another message telling her that her life "ends today."
He threatened to go to her sister's house around 6:41AM and called her a "jack-a-f**king-sl*t."
Around half an hour later, he called again saying "that was just the entree" and he was "going to war" with her.
“Now you f**ked up big time … I’m going to make you pay you Asian f**king slag, you f**king gutter sl*t."
Another hour passed with more incoming message, where he concedes "all he wanted was a friend after all these years."
“You f**king stupid, stupid old lady, you’re going to pay for what you’ve done to me."
“I f**king hate you with a passion … all I wanted was a friend you stupid f**king pig.”
His last message, around 8:20AM was him threatening he was two minutes away from her sister's house and he was going to "f**k your world."
Around 8:30AM, police called him and asked for any information relating to a different matter, which prompted him to stop the threats.
After the call, investigators put in measures to keep her safe, including surveillance, monitoring of cell-tower locations, and intercepting her phone.
He was arrested on March 30th, telling police he thought the woman stopped contact with him because he was "becoming a pest."
He admitted to the threats but maintained he didn't mean he would really kill her.
Magistrate Lisa Stapleton slammed his actions as very serious, the language "so foul, so deeply offensive to any respectable person” she couldn’t read them out to the packed courtroom.
“This is an offence against a person who you had known for many years, she being a sex worker and you having access to her mobile phone."
“Such a threat received on voicemail must have terrified the victim and disempowered an individual, this being a sex worker.”
It was reported that he had character references describing him as someone who conducted himself professionally and respectfully.
“I think that’s a sham,” the magistrate said.
“They clearly have no insight to the harm caused to the victim in this offence."
“There is a letter from your father … describing you as a gentle soul. I cannot reconcile a gentle soul with words such as this.”
The magistrate said in her 20 years in the job, she had "never seen anything" this bad.
She said he “absolutely destroyed the mental security” of the woman and it was “hard to believe” he meant anything “but violence”.
She believed the only appropriate penalty was custody, but he was referred to a home detention assessment.
He will return to court in July for his sentencing.
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