Marc Joseph Loborec’s jailhouse threats to victim’s family and witnesses after roommate attack

A man violently attacked his roommate, blinding him in one eye, before taking him and two other ‘hostages’ in a terrifying domestic altercation, a court was told.

Even while he was in pretrial detention for the brutal attack, Marc Joseph Loborec rallied his family members to intimidate the 62-year-old victim, his son, and other witnesses into not coming to court.

In calls to his relatives from behind prison walls, Loborec warned that those planning to make statements against him would go into “witness protection” and threatened to kill them when he got out.

‘I’m not going to be eight years old, comrade. If I have to turn eight, I’ll go out and go back there and kill all his fucking children,’ she told her own mother in December of last year.

The chilling threats may be revealed after Loborec, 29, pleaded guilty to a series of serious charges in Brisbane District Court in December.

They included multiple counts of felony assault and other counts of grievous bodily injury, willful mischief, and attempt to pervert justice.

In court documents seen by NCA NewsWire, the ordeal began on August 19, 2021 in Alexandra Hills after a dispute erupted over Loborec using the victim’s phone to stream video on the home television.

At the time, he was living there with the 62-year-old and two others.

Loborec threw the phone at the victim, hitting him in the left eye.

“The complainant felt something run down his face, which he assumed was blood, but later realized it was fluid from his eye,” reads a statement of the facts of the Loborec case.

‘The complainant’s eye was very sore and bleeding.’

The man was taken to hospital the next day, lying to staff that he was struck by a flying fox.

He had suffered serious injuries, including a ruptured left eyeball that required emergency surgery.

Despite this, the man was blinded in his left eye.

A doctor said that if the eye injury had not been treated, it would have endangered the man’s life or caused permanent damage to his health.

When the man returned home six days later, a drunken Loborec was celebrating in the kitchen, claiming they were “rich” because he had “ripped off” a motorcycle for $14,000.

As he grabbed the author’s head, jumping up and down, Loborec’s finger plunged into the man’s injured eye.

‘What are you doing? For God’s sake, be careful, that’s my eye. I can’t see through it, I’m blind,” the complainant yelled.

‘I’m going to be blind for the rest of my life in that eye. Just be careful. Just calm down,’ she continued as she went to lie down.

Later that day, the man told Loborec to turn the volume down on the television.

Loborec responded by putting his arm around the man, punching him multiple times in the face in front of his other horrified roommates.

He then threw an ashtray at the man’s nose, causing it to bleed.

Loborec then joked that he should be “pitching for the Yankees” as the victim screamed before smashing the man’s phone.

Stop whining. Shut up you old idiot, you’re nothing but a piece of shit, no one would miss you if I killed you,” he told the man.

When his other roommates came out for a cigarette, Loborec said, ‘What the hell are you doing? Nobody leaves.

All of you are being held hostage. I’m going to kill all of you. You can not go away. If you call the police, I will kill you all,” he told the couple.

Loborec then grabbed a butter knife, lunged at the whistleblower, and said, “I should kill you, you old idiot.”

He said he would rather spend “the rest of his life in prison” because he ate three meals a day and had “lost control” and no one would help him, the statement of facts filed with the court says.

Later that night, Loborec punched and kicked the victim while yelling, ‘I want heroin and you go get it now!’

He relented after his other housemates confronted him about the attacks.

The next day, the 62-year-old found a phone and called the police before he was taken to hospital.

Loborec was arrested and taken into custody.

In multiple monitored phone calls from prison, reviewed by police, he expressed no remorse for the crime.

“You’re blind in one eye, boo, bad luck,” he says in one call.

In another, he says: ‘I fucking tortured the son of a bitch and fucked him up. He’s lucky he didn’t kill the son of a bitch.

Loborec went on to say that he hit the man so hard that “his eye popped out” and that it was “not his fault” because “his life ended anyway, so who cares about his vision.”

The exposition of the facts continues with Loborec calling his family members by phone while they are in pretrial detention, asking them to contact the victim and other witnesses to discourage them from attending court.

“I’m telling you, if these fuckers become Crown witnesses against me, they’re literally going to have to go into witness protection,” he tells his mother in October 2021.

He then says that he has ‘a partner’ who will go see the witnesses if they make statements against him.

In another call, Loborec says he met a “cool guy” in prison and explained that they would go see the victim and “talk.”

He said the couple was going to turn around and say, ‘Make sure you don’t show up in court or you’re screwed.

‘They’re going to have to go into the witness protection program if they come to court and testify against me,’ he says on October 26, 2021.

‘I’m telling you right now, I don’t give a shit, whether it’s 10 years from now, these two fucking addicts.

I hate drug addicts. Tell my lawyers to tell them if they are Crown witnesses against me they better get into the witness protection program.

Police obtained statements from the victim and her son after reviewing the calls.

According to the facts, the son told officers that Loborec’s father approached him on May 11. He told her that he would be ‘waiting outside the courthouse’ and would ‘whipping’ his father.

The son said that Loborec’s father repeatedly said: ‘Your dad is dead, we are going to kill your dad. Pass the message.

Loborec’s father also went to the victim’s house and threatened him and one of the housemates who witnessed the events, the facts say.

While there, he made a gesture as if he were holding a rifle, pointing in his direction as he said, ‘If my son spends any considerable time in jail… You know what I’m talking about? you got it. You know what I mean?’

Loborec’s father approached the victim again as she was walking to the stores, offering her a ride.

When he realized who it was and tried to get out, Loborec’s father said, ‘Don’t get out of this damn car.’ Let’s have a talk.

Loborec pleaded guilty to seven counts, including felony assault on a person over the age of 60, grievous bodily harm, willful mischief and attempt to pervert justice.

In Brisbane District Court on December 8, Loborec received a three-year principal sentence from Judge Michael Burnett.

In a psychology report seen Per NCA NewsWire, Loborec claimed that dropping the phone was “an accident.”

“He demonstrated little insight or awareness of the consequences of this action, exhibiting a sense of entitlement to be forgiven,” his treating physician opined.

‘He denied any intent to injure the complainant’s eye.’

In the documents, Loborec tells his doctor that he stepped on a needle in the living room the day he assaulted the man returning from the hospital.

His doctor said he seemed to be downplaying the seriousness of the crime.

Loborec told the doctor that he grew up in a “dysfunctional” home and only completed school up to grade 10 because he found it “stressful and difficult to pass.”

He was bullied, got into fights, and didn’t like being around other people because of his anxiety.

“She reported being told she had a learning disability and prescribed Ritalin at age 14 after being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD),” the documents state.

Loborec reported to his psychologist that he began abusing and forming a dependency on Ritalin before being introduced to the drug speed and then ice at age 18.

He also developed serious drinking problems, consuming up to 12 beers a day, according to the documents.

The psychologist said Loborec explained that substance abuse was a “way of coping” with his mental health problems.

He reported being diagnosed with schizophrenia, drug-induced psychosis and bipolar disorder, he explained.

In the documents, Loborec’s psychologist said he reported experiencing auditory hallucinations, but said they were “not distressing at the time” and were being managed appropriately with medication.