A 50-year-old Geelong man who made a bomb threat in a phone call to the Bicycle Network offices has been sentenced to prison.
Kevin Braunton of Moolap appeared in the Geelong Magistrates Court on multiple charges that also included stalking his previous partner.
He pleaded guilty to all charges.
Braunton was sentenced to four months in jail, with 35 days marked as served, and will be placed on a 15-month community corrections order once he is released.
Magistrate Simon Guthrie described the offending against his former partner as carefully planned, cruel, malicious and persistent.
Magistrate Guthrie said regarding the bomb hoax that Braunton's actions were far beyond a practical joke.
During the hearing last week Mr Braunton sat in court with his hands over his ears, and later as the charges were read to the Court, lay on the floor.
The court heard that in February 2021 a bike rider died in a collision with Braunton’s vehicle on the Great Ocean Road. The cyclist was on the wrong side of the road and Braunton was cleared of wrongdoing.
The rider was part of a community ride organised by Bicycle Network, which the court heard Braunton blamed.
A month later he called the network and pretended to be the deceased rider and said he was going to bomb the building.
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