Peter Hawkins the Pyschopath

When I moved to Bendigo I moved into a home that one Peter Hawkins claimed to be the Landlord of and I'd found on the website flatmates.com.au. It was advertised as furnished.

The house was old and had a timber floor with holes which made it freezing. The window was smashed and fixed with tape.

After a major argument when I asked him to sign a FlatMates Agreement and I was advised he was not the owner, I took a few days off to stay at a local Hotel to just gather my thoughts.

I was then advised by text that I was never to talk to him again (in other words I had no home to return to) and thus the Bendigo Police placed me into a local Motel that accommodates such people facing homelessness.

Hawkins offered to drop my belongings off to the Motel which he did save for all of my personal files.

He used those files to spend the next fourteen months harassing me.

I received in excess of 900 death threats, my family and friends were all contacted and his obsession with me was overwhelming.

He owes me thousands of dollars and I sued him in the Civil Division of the Magistrates' Court in Bendigo and he appeared via video link and tendered no evidence but perjured himself nineteen times.

I tendered bank records, copies of emails, a copy of the contract and was expecting a slam dunk win. However, this idiot Judicial Officer acting as a Magistrate sided with Hawkins and I lost! Incredible.

Thanks to Hawkins I'd gone from couch surfing to sleeping on the streets in the freezing Bendigo winter. I was ultimately saved by my now late best friend, Aaron, who passed away last year at the age of 35 from severe alcoholism. I didn't even know he was living in Bendigo but we ran into each other at the Bendigo Salvation Army waiting for different appointments.

Once my life was back on track and I eventually was provided social housing I appealed the decision of the Judicial Registrar in the Supreme Court and it was months or work, registered post etc. and again I lost because the Magistrate was not a Magistrate he was a Judicial Registrar. The Judge advised me that I was to appeal to a Magistrate and not the Supreme Court which was not the advice I was given by registry.

As there was no point wasting any more time on this evil person, I finally had no need to keep copies of his emails and so I took out a Personal Safety Intervention Order against him and he's now finally left me alone.

I sometimes wish there was a Heaven and a Hell because I know where this person would be going if he hasn't already. He smokes three packets a day of illegal tobacco.

Moving to Bendigo into a place sight unseen was a disaster but I was desperate.

Bendigo is the Ice capital of Australia, has one of the highest crime rates in Victoria and is not some quaint little tourist town - it's an utter disaster full of people whom are highly violent and to be avoided at all costs.

And who's the local State Member for Bendigo? The ALP Victorian Premier!