A man who nearly killed one girlfriend when he ploughed into a rock wall on the M1 out of his brain on ecstasy, is fast earning a reputation as a recidivist domestic violence offender and love rat, a court has heard.
Kyle Richardson, 24, faced Belmont Local Court on Friday where he was due to defend charges of intimidation, two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and using a carriage service to threaten to kill and menace.
However in a last minute plea deal Richardson pleaded guilty to common assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of stalk or intimidate and one count of using a carriage service to menace.
An agreed set of facts states Richardson, who shot to infamy in 2022 by posting TikTok videos while serving a stint in prison for a horror smash on the M1 in which he nearly killed his then girlfriend, met a new woman in March 2023.
Despite him living at Gorokan and her living at Pottsville, north of Byron Bay, the couple became intimate and she would often spend three or four weeks living with him on the Central Coast. On December 21 last year Richardson flew up to spend Christmas with her and her parents. The next day, while he was in the shower the woman, 25, went through his mobile phone.
“The victim found evidence of infidelity, became upset and went into the bathroom where the accused was showering and told him ‘pack your shit, get out of my house, it’s over’,” the agreed facts state.
After a verbal argument she held the front door open and as he approached he tried to grab her phone without success.
“Subsequently, the accused used both hands, picked the victim up by her shoulders and forced her against the front door. The accused then left,” the facts state.
Over the next two days Richardson called her mobile phone about 50 times.
Several times she answered and told him to stop calling her.
He also sent her a direct message on TikTok saying she deserved better.
“I betrayed, cheated on you, disrespected you, belittled, and made you — the only person who genuinely cared about me — f–king hate me,” his message said.
The woman went to Tweed Heads Police Station on January 4 and reported the assault and harassment.
About 1.15pm on January 8 Raptor South police were patrolling the Kiama area when they pulled over a Toyota HiLux Richardson was driving.
Checks revealed he was wanted for the domestic violence offences.
About 11pm on August 1 this year Richardson was on bail to reside at Blue Haven and subject to a community corrections order for a separate domestic violence offence against a different partner, when he was visiting yet another ex-girlfriend at Schofields.
That woman had been dumped earlier that morning by her on-again, off-again boyfriend who she had been messaging all day asking to get back together, the agreed facts state.
Feeling “guilty” the man decided to visit her after work and arrived at her address to find Richardson, who pretended to have a knife in his pocket and told the man he was going to stab him.
“The accused motioned forward to attack the victim and the victim pushed him back and pulled the accused’s jumper over his head,” the facts state.
“The accused proceeded to chase the victim around St Albans Rd for a period of time. The victim and accused engaged in a physical altercation where they both were fighting each other.”
After a while Richardson went inside and the man spoke to his newly separated ex-girlfriend when Richardson came out and said “I’ve called the boys”.
A short time later the woman’s brother, Joshua Koberler, 31, of Blacktown, turned up in a black Nissan Navara allegedly armed with a “short black steel bat”.
He allegedly proceeded to hit the victim five or six times in the head causing two large lacerations.
Richardson also tried to hit him and the attack only ended when the woman jumped on her ex-boyfriend’s back to shield him.
Richardson and Koberler left a short time later.
Koberler has pleaded not guilty to assault, reckless wounding and using an offensive weapon and will face a hearing at Blacktown Local Court on January 22.
Richardson’s lawyer Mohammad Wafai, meanwhile, said his client had diagnosed mental health issues, which led to alcohol and drug abuse to cope with a difficult childhood.
