In what police allege was going to be an attack on a different person, he was overpowered by a group of strangers who lived there.
Brandon Kelly, 33, of Wallan, appeared in a successful bail application at Shepparton Magistrates’ Court.
He is charged with weapons offences, assault with a weapon, dangerous driving, speeding and drug possession.
Shepparton police officer Detective Senior Constable Veronica Walker told the court police spotted Mr Kelly allegedly driving at an estimated 130km/h in a 60km/h zone in Riverview Dve at Kialla at 4.40am on August 31.
When police pulled alongside him in Wyndham St, he veered and collided with a keep left sign before continuing into Macintosh St, Det Sen Constable Walker said.
Police allege Mr Kelly turned up at a Grahamvale house wearing a balaclava and carrying a knife at 5am.
He banged on the door, and when the four occupants saw him, they managed to overpower him and call police.
When police arrested him, a 10cm kitchen knife was found wrapped in a towel in his sock.
Other knives, cocaine and cannabis were also allegedly found in his car.
Det Sen Constable Walker told the court police believed Mr Kelly had intended to go to a different house on the same street, but mistakenly attended the wrong address.
“He had a bat, gloves, knife, baseball bat and face-covering. We say he was ill-intentioned,” Det Sen Constable Walker said.
Mr Kelly’s solicitor Emma King told the court had her client drank alcohol before the alleged offending, and it was “a precipitating factor for his behaviour”.
She also told the court the recent sentencing of his partner to jail for two years had immediately pre-dated this offending.
He now has care of their young child, and his partner is pregnant with another baby.
He also has another child to a former partner.
Ms King said Mr Kelly had family support, and medical treatment in the form of a privately funded psychiatrist was available.
Magistrate Allison Vaughan said the people in the house he went to “must have been petrified”, but were able to restrain him.
While they were able to restrain him, she questioned what would have happened if Mr Kelly had turned up at the door of an 80-year-old woman living on her own.
“You didn’t know whose door you were knocking on. This could have turned very poorly for you, or very poorly for them,” Ms Vaughan said.
In granting Mr Kelly bail, Ms Vaughan said he had a very limited criminal history, but there were acts of violence and dishonesty “peppered” throughout it.
However, she noted he was the sole carer of a child, and had support of his mother and other family members to help him.
His bail conditions include that he abide by a curfew, not drive, not drink, not use drugs, not go to Greater Shepparton, attend a psychiatrist appointment and abide by their directions, and get a mental health plan done with his doctor.
Mr Kelly will next appear in Seymour Magistrates’ Court in October.
