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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Eden Gillespie

Delay in court case for man accused of vandalising Woolworths over Australia Day stance

Screengrab from CCTV footage appearing to show someone spray painting the front of the Teneriffe Woolworths
A Woolworths Metro store in Teneriffe was allegedly vandalised on 15 January. Photograph: Queensland police

A man accused of an Australia Day-related graffiti attack on a Queensland Woolworths faces a six-week delay to the matter due to medical records and other information not being disclosed.

Travis Profke, of Ormiston, is accused of spray painting graffiti outside Woolworths Metro in Teneriffe on 15 January. The 40-year-old has also been charged with vandalising supermarkets at Victoria Point, Cleveland and Teneriffe on 13 January.

The alleged vandalism came after the supermarket chain confirmed it would not stock Australia Day merchandise.

Hugh Stitt, a lawyer representing Profke at a Brisbane court on Wednesday, successfully requested a six-week adjournment for the next court mention.

Stitt said his client had not yet received hospital records and other information from a disclosure request.

Last month Profke was granted bail on the condition that he not to step foot within 50 metres of any Woolworths store.

Profke has been charged with two counts of willful damage and two counts of wilful damage by graffiti.

Profke is next scheduled to appear at Brisbane arrests court on 1 May.

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