A superyacht worker allegedly kidnapped his former partner after she left him and demanded she take a ‘blood oath’ not to go to police with evidence, a court heard.
Ethan Davis, from the Central Coast, was granted bail on Friday following an application to the NSW Supreme Court after he was arrested in September on charges of a series of serious domestic violence offences.
He was released after more than two months in custody and despite the Crown prosecutor opposing his release, citing the risk of him not appearing and the danger to the complainant and the community.
The accuser claims that after their relationship ended, he became “obsessive,” stalked her and held her down twice.
Details of the charges are contained in a police document filed during his bail application.
According to court documents, Davis, 23, met the woman in January 2022 when he started working on a superyacht called Oceana, where she also worked.
Superyacht worker Ethan Davis (above) is accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend in August
They had a brief casual relationship that ended in December last year.
It is alleged that he was unhappy with the breakdown of their relationship and once waited for her at her car and visited her house.
When their employer was informed of the situation, he stopped work for a period of six weeks.
He is said to have sent a card to her parents’ house saying ‘I love you xx’.
When he returned to work, they resumed their relationship until she broke it off again in mid-August this year.
They later met at Bondi Icebergs in late August and it is claimed that when she told him their relationship could not continue, he asked who else she was dating, took her phone and asked her to follow him to his car .
According to court documents, when she told him she would scream unless he gave her phone back, he said, “well, scream then.”
She followed him to his car and tried to get the phone back.
According to court documents, she got into his car but held the door open and began yelling at passersby, prompting him to slam the car and drive away.
He allegedly demanded that she return the jewelry he had bought for her before finally taking her home.
He asked her to “take a blood oath that she would not tell anyone,” according to police charges.
“The victim swore on her parents’ lives that she would not tell anyone,” court documents state.
Davis is said to have held the woman in his car for the first time after she ended their relationship at Bondi Icebergs (above)
On another occasion, she says she confronted him at work and told him to stop threatening her.
According to police allegations, he later asked her, “So you don’t want to do it?”
After she responded “no,” he messaged her saying “You’re disappointing me” and called her more than 200 times about multiple job applications, according to the documents.
It is alleged that he also sent her a bank deposit of $0.01 with the message ‘Answer your phone’ attached.
The woman then contacted police and later warned him that she would go to authorities if he persisted.
According to court documents, when Davis left work later that evening, she dressed in all black, put on black latex gloves and hid near her car.
It is said that when she came close, he said, “Come here. You’re going to get in the car. You’re going to get in the car.’
When she protested, he allegedly grabbed her back as she screamed for help.
He is said to have loosened his grip when a nearby ute stopped, allowing her to run away.
However, he rushed her downstairs, placed his hands over her mouth and told her to “be quiet,” according to the charges.
Police allege he carried her to the car, where he pulled out a knife.
The woman told police he told her to unlock her phone and, “You’re going to delete the evidence.”
They drove to Manly where he allegedly made her delete all their messages, call logs and screenshots.
He also demanded that she take a “blood oath” not to tell anyone, which she did to appease him, according to prosecutors’ allegations.
Davis (above) allegedly kidnapped the woman as she left work while dressed in black and latex gloves
“The victim made a small cut on her left index finger with the knife, causing it to bleed,” according to court documents.
They then drove back to the marina and he let her drive home.
The next morning she went to Bondi police station to report the matter.
Later that day, police stopped his car about 50 yards from where the alleged victim’s vehicle was parked.
Police say they found black latex gloves in the center console, as well as black clothing.
According to police, he was also in possession of 0.72 grams of MDMA.
The Wadalba man was charged with a range of offenses including two counts of taking/detaining a person with intent to gain advantage, using a carriage service to threaten/intimidate/offend, using an offensive weapon to commit an offense and two counts of to stalk. intimidate with intent to cause fear/physical harm.
In an affidavit to the court, the officer in charge of the investigation argued that there was “strong evidence” to support the allegations, including “clear CCTV footage of the suspect chasing the terrified complainant and pushing her with a gloved hand through an abandoned parking complex. her mouth.’
Defense barrister Raoul Court told the court during Davis’ bail application that he “panicked” because he feared losing his job.
“He was concerned about losing his job and his home, which was on the superyacht,” Court said.
The NSW Supreme Court (above) heard Davis was ‘panicked’ the woman would tell the superyacht captain about their relationship, costing him his job
‘He was not concerned about the end of the relationship – this concern was that she would tell the captain, not the police, that their relationship had continued.
“Based on the captain’s information, Davis will lose his job and his home.”
He further argued that the relationship between the couple had existed for almost two years, during which time he had always had respect for the woman.
Mr. Davis was granted bail on conditions amounting to house arrest and on the condition that his family post a $1 million bond.
Mr Davis appeared briefly at Downing Center Local Court on Tuesday.