Courier Mail
December 01, 2009
A SELF appointed unit block vigilante threatened a neighbour with a knife because he believed the man was continually complaining to police about loud music, a court heard today.
Errol Lawrence Lui accused the neighbour of being "that Nazi guy who keeps calling the police" before assaulting him and the neighbour's daughter.
The Court of Appeal in Brisbane, heard Errol Lawrence Lui was preparing dinner in his Cairns unit, in north Queensland, when he heard loud music coming from a car in the driveway, on August 9 last year.
He saw a man, who lived next door to the unit block, approach the car and speak with the driver who apologised and turned down the music.
The court heard Lui then appeared on the scene armed with a 30 centimtre knife and abused the complaining neighbour.
Lui ordered the man off the property and said: "You're the Nazi guy that keeps calling police."
The court was told he grabbed the man's shoulder and held the knife to his chest.
The man's daughter appeared and Lui put the knife away before exhanging insults with her.
As she walked away he thumped her on the right shoulder and said: "I know who you are and I know where you live." ...
In sentencing Lui, Judge Bill Everson said people were entitled to complain about loud music without "some knife wielding drunken lunatic attacking them and threatening to stab them"...
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