A HALLS Gap man charged with sending hundreds of text messages and making thousands of phone calls to his former partner has been refused bail.
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Paul Kelly, 32, unsuccessfully applied for bail in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court and was remanded in custody until August 30.
He has already spent more than 50 days in custody.
Magistrate Alan Spillane said Mr Kelly had a blatant disregard for his intervention order and behaved like it did not apply to him. He said it was clear Mr Kelly was obsessed with the woman.
"Your behaviour greatly concerns me. You are a completely unacceptable risk of continuing to offend," he said.
Senior Constable Adrian Dolman said Mr Kelly and a woman had been in a relationship between November last year and March this year when they separated and an intervention order was put in place.
The victim lives in Warrnambool and Mr Kelly at Halls Gap.
The policeman said he believed Mr Kelly had the woman under surveillance and was stalking her through text messages and phone calls.
He said Mr Kelly telephoned the victim 1864 times between April 21 and May 25 and breached the intervention order daily.
The victim had also seen Mr Kelly sitting in his car near her home every weekend and he had approached her at a fast food restaurant, a bottle shop, when she was picking up a babysitter, at a pizza shop and a hotel.
A neighbour also reported seeing Mr Kelly looking in the windows of the woman's home despite being banned from being within 200 metres of the address.
The woman also found a phone stashed in her car and she believed Mr Kelly had broken in to put the phone in place to trace her.
"She also believes he has been in her home several times while she was there," Mr Dolman said, explaining that he walked in even when the doors were locked.
On May 19 the woman's roller door went up and down a number of times, she saw a garage door handle moving and pebbles thrown at her home. The woman said she was terrified for herself and her two children.
Senior Constable Dolman said Mr Kelly had been the subject of 20 family violence reports to police involving three different women.
He said Mr Kelly had been charged with 53 offences and breached a community corrections order.
