‘Chilling with a menacing undertone’: Stalker of 7-time surf champ Stephanie Gilmore convicted after violating safety order

A person has been convicted after he breached a safety order in a “chilling” confrontation with seven-time world browsing champion Stephanie Gilmore.

Squires Winter – who has three earlier convictions for precise bodily hurt and two for assault – was convicted and fined $ 1,000 AUD (US$ 700) for breaching the non-public violence order Gilmore took out in Might.

The 66-year-old was forbidden from contacting or searching for out the surfer, in addition to coming inside 500 meters of her house or place of job.

Nonetheless, he approached Gilmore within the carpark on the Tweed Coast Professional in September while she was unloading her surfboard.

“Hello, how are you going? … We’re going to catch up later, aren’t we?” he’s alleged to have requested her, to which the 32-year-old replied: “No, no we received’t. Bye.”

Gilmore reported the incident to the police, who arrested Winter and stated she was “visibly shaken and upset.”

Winter is alleged to have instructed the police that he’s a former surf coach of Gilmore’s and that he didn’t search her out, however quite he stopped at Cabarita Seaside to make use of the toilet while driving to Brisbane to go to his daughter.

Nonetheless, the court docket was knowledgeable that Gilmore doesn’t know Winter, whereas police prosecutor Sergeant Chris Martin stated his account “didn’t make any sense” as a result of coronavirus restrictions prevented him from crossing the state border between New South Wales and Queensland.

Gilmore is alleged to have taken out the apprehended violence order in opposition to Winter after a number of “horrifying incidents” through which he tried to get to her by buddies.

Justice of the Peace Geoff Dunlevy stated that inspecting all of the info surrounding September’s confrontation made it “extra chilling with a menacing undertone.”

Gilmore started competing within the World Surf League again in 2005, and she or he received 4 consecutive world titles between 2007 and 2010.

She has grow to be world champion on three additional events, in 2012, 2014 and 2018, whereas final 12 months she completed fourth within the Championship Tour standings.

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