Accused stalker of Richmond's Alex Rance in Melbourne Magistrates' Court Paul Anderson
From: Herald Sun
August 30, 2012 2:07PMA man accused of stalking Richmond defender Alex Rance has briefly appeared in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this morning.
Scott Thomas, 34, is facing 72 charges including stalking and deceptions.
“The accused at Prahran on 28 September 2010 did use a carriage service in a manner which a reasonable person would regard as being harassing, namely Alex Rance,” the police charge sheet states.
Rance has since taken out a restraining order.
In separate matters, Mr Thomas is also accused of falsely claiming to be a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, and purporting to be a doctor while selling human growth hormone.
He is charged with other offences relating to obtaining cash by deception.
The court was today told that there were four volumes of evidence relating to the case, and some fifty witnesses.
Mr Thomas’s lawyer said to-and-fro offers between the defence and the prosecution had failed to resolve the matters.
The case was adjourned until October 22.
Mr Thomas’s bail was extended.
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