Supreme Court of Queensland

Order me a pizza, mate

14 June 2012

Daubney J shows considerable fortitude, patience and good humour in dealing with this self-represented criminal accused on the first day of a trial for attempted murder. The transcript contains some very strong language and is not for the faint of heart, but it makes for amusing reading. The best part is probably when the accused sarcastically suggests that the judge order him a pizza. Some choice excerpts follow (see here for the full transcript):

HIS HONOUR: The trial——-

DEFENDANT: Look - now listen here, mate, you don’t know what you’re fucking talking about.

HIS HONOUR: Now you listen to me——-

DEFENDANT: No, no.

HIS HONOUR: No, you listen to——-

DEFENDANT: Don’t come blooming start your shit, right, mate.

HIS HONOUR: You listen here, Mr B——-

DEFENDANT: You don’t there - you weren’t fucking there so don’t start your crap.

HIS HONOUR: Mr B——-

Citation: R v DAB (Unreported, Supreme Court of Queensland, 4 June 2012)

Source: http://www.rollonfriday.com/Portals/0/ArticleFiles/Transcript_-_Queen_v_DAB11%20%282%29.pdf

Yobbo

01 January 2008

'Yobbo', which derives from the British slang 'yob' (a young lad), is a fairly well-accepted term of Australian English. Evidently, however, it has yet to make the transition out of literary imprisonment between inverted commas when given to judicial usage.

At 9.45 pm that night [the victim] received a phone call from a person who told her that the caller had read her letter [to a local newspaper] and that she should not have called the arsonist a coward; the caller did not like that; knew where she lived; had burnt the mosque and now her house was going to be burnt down. She thought the voice sounded like a 20 year old male ‘yobbo’ voice, ‘not very articulated, a breathy … Read more »

Citation: R v Hanlon [2003] QCA 75

Source: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/qld/QCA/2003/75.html