The incident comes nearly two months after Slater was charged with stalking/intimidating his on-and-off partner of three yearsfollowing an alleged incident in October.
Opposing bail at Manly Local Court on Wednesday afternoon,the police prosecutor described Mr Slater’s messages to the woman as “harassing and highly offensive in nature” and submitted that “the only way to stop this sort of messaging is to completely remove any access the accused has to electronic devices.
“In today’s world,” he said,that’s “almost impossible ... even if he did not have access to a smart phone and was given access to what’s colloquially known as a ‘dumb phone’,he still has the ability to message and call her.”
He said the AVO Mr Slater breached has been enforceable since October 19,and “there can be no ambiguity regarding the conditions of the AVO,they are as explicit as they come”.
An AVO is “not worth the paper it is written on” unless it’s enforced,the prosecutor said.
Mr Slater’s lawyer James McLoughlin took issue with the prosecutor’s claim his client “does not want to adhere to the AVO nor comply with the bail” conditions he was set nearly two months ago.
Mr McLoughlin said his client suffers from an alcohol abuse disorder which was “heavily at play” when the alleged breach occurred on Tuesday evening.