A MAN accused of having a knife while holding two children against their will in an Ashmont house on Thursday has faced Wagga Local Court charged with 10 alleged offences.
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Police smashed their way into a Bulolo Street house about 2pm to end the hour-long stand-off.
Sporting a red mark on the bridge of his nose and puffy eyes, Phillip James Thurling appeared in court on Friday morning via videolink with the courthouse cells.
Duty solicitor, David Barron, told magistrate Brian Van Zuylen 36-year-old Thurling would not make a bail application at this time.
Mr Barron asked for Thurling to be given medical and psychiatric treatment while in prison.
He said Thurling had been diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease.
“It’s a very serious condition,” Mr Barron said.
After Thurling’s arrest on Thursday, police took him to the Wagga Rural Referral Hospital.
He was released from hospital about 2am Friday and kept in custody pending his court appearance.
Police charged Thurling with take/detain a person with intent to obtain an advantage, use offensive weapon to prevent lawful detention, use offensive weapon with intent to commit an indictable offence, two counts of common assault, two counts of assaulting police, intimidation, destroy or damage property and resisting police.
Mr Barron told Mr Van Zuylen an additional charge of take/detain and another charge of intimidation would be laid against Thurling.
During the short mention of his case, Thurling said only the word yes when asked if he could hear what was happening in the courtroom and thank you when the mention ended.
Mr Van Zuylen ordered the prosecution to provide Thurling’s future legal representative with a brief of evidence by August 4 then adjourned the case to August 16.
