By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A DANDENONG squatter has been refused bail after being accused of grabbing a woman by the back of the head and slamming her face into a hotel room wall.
Zeeshan Mehdi, 28, had been earlier bailed and put on a full interim intervention order on 22 February over the hotel incident.
He was back in court on 11 April after being found by police the day before squatting in a Dandenong house with the victim in breach of the intervention order.
On 10 April, Mehdi was found by police crouching next to the house’s toilet.
He told the officers that he had fled from police who visited the address over outstanding warrants on 1 April because he was “getting fit and going for a job”, the document stated.
As dawn broke on 18 February at the Sandown Regency Hotel, Mehdi allegedly argued with the 25-year-old victim then grabbed her around the neck and threw her to the floor.
As she tried to get up, Mehdi allegedly kicked the back of her head.
When the woman stood up, Mehdi slammed her face into the wall. It caused a deep cut to her face and a large amount of bruising and swelling, police alleged.
Mehdi, who was a disqualified driver, agreed to drive the crying victim to Dandenong Hospital but another argument was sparked when he refused to go inside.
Mehdi allegedly threatened to kill the victim if she didn’t stop making a scene, and told two witnesses recording the incident to “f*** off”.
About 10.40am, police arrested him in a car on a vacant block off Lois Lane, Dandenong. Mehdi was found with a handbag containing 3.5 grams of cannabis and a glass pipe with ice.
The accused was also charged over forcing open a window into a share-house’s spare bedroom where he had lived for an unknown period.
When confronted by one of the tenants, Mehdi told him to contact the real estate agent.
Mehdi left with the woman in a Commodore, striking the tenant as he tried to write down the rear number plate.
Mehdi later told police he had permission to stay at the house from a friend.
Mehdi and the woman are also accused of “doing a runner” after sharing a $116 meal at Taj Palace Restaurant, Lynbrook, on 28 January.
During the bail hearing, Mehdi claimed to have a place to stay with a Paterson Lakes friend.
He told the court that the friend had promised to attend court but had not appeared.
Magistrate Pauline Spencer refused bail on 11 April because of Mehdi’s history of failing to appear at court and having no evidence of a fixed address.
Mehdi was remanded to appear at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 20 April.
