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A self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen” wrote a series of chilling letters while behind bars in pretrial detention on bomb threat charges.
The letters, written by Matthew James Evans, were addressed to various Queensland courts, stating that the courts had “no jurisdiction” to punish him before warning that the courts would be “blown up” by “information bombs”.
“This bomb will blow up your building (LOL),” he wrote on one.
The letters, each page signed by him and fingerprinted in red ink, also made vile accusations against the judges.
Most of his handwritten notes began with ‘Dear Redheaded, Illiterate Trustees’ while branding them as ‘kid bastards’ and ‘Pedophile (sic) Trustee Judges’.
Matthew James Evans, took aim at various courts across the country of Queensland, claiming that the courts “did not have jurisdiction” to punish him.
The extent of his jailhouse mail may be revealed after Evans, from Runnymede in Queensland’s South Burnett region, was sentenced in Brisbane District Court last month.
In court documents obtained by NCA NewswireEvans pleaded guilty to more than 40 charges, including making a bomb hoax, using a delivery service for a hoax threat, using a delivery service to threaten, harass or offend, and multiple counts of using a postal service to threaten, harass and cause offense.
Thirty-seven other summary charges were also tried, ranging from breach of bail to evasion, disorderly conduct and obstruction of police.
In an agreed statement of facts filed with the court, Evans first called the police station in Nyngan, a small rural community more than 500km north-west of Sydney, in June 2020.
Evans told the officer who responded, “Hi you bunch of buggers, there’s a bomb at your station you buggers,” before hanging up.
Matthew James Evans’ threatening letters made vile accusations against judges and threatened to ‘blow up the facts’ with ‘information bombs’
He then called the station another 26 times and hung up each time the phone was answered.
Evans’ phone was traced to Logan in Queensland, where police searched his mother’s home in Logan Village.
Court documents indicate that he responded to a call from investigating officers, claiming he made empty threats because NSW police had “kept him in the sun for an hour without water.”
Evans then called Policelink the next day and said that he did not intend to make the threats.
“He said he meant NSW Police were ‘bong heads’ and the police thought he meant ‘bomb’,” court documents state.
Matthew James Evans’s bizarre letters to Queensland courts claimed bombs were planted in their buildings
Undeterred, Evans called Stanthorpe Court House in south-west Queensland in September 2021 angrily telling a staff member that the court should not be open and that he was “committing treason”.
“After a moment of silence, Evans yelled into the phone, ‘There’s a bomb in the courthouse,’ and hung up,” court documents state.
The building was later evacuated.
A month later, Evans began a live chat with an employee of the Family Law Court in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney.
He claimed that a woman was committing child abuse and “birth certificate fraud”, before threatening to blow up the building.
He claimed that the courts had “stolen his property” and demanded the return of his children.
A police investigation led to Evans’ arrest at an Aldi store in Kingaroy, Queensland.
His Runnymede property was also raided, where police discovered more than 27.2g of marijuana being grown.
Officers also found diazepam tablets, fertilizer and water crystals used to grow the drugs.
During the raid, police seized a loaded pistol, a crossbow, a homemade nightstick with protruding nails, a water pipe, a pair of scissors, and a knife in his car positioned “as if the driver could easily grab it.”
While in pre-sentencing remand, Evans wrote several letters from the confines of his cell at the Maryborough Correctional Facility.
The self-proclaimed sovereign citizen made a number of wild claims in his threats
He sent copies to the courts at Beenleigh, Warwick, Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi over several days between February and March, each page signed by him and fingerprinted in red ink.
The handwritten letters also contained statements like: ‘THIS BOMB WILL BLOW UP YOUR BUILDING (LOL)’.
In another letter to Warwick Magistrates Court, Evans criticized “illiterate judges and pedophiles (sic)” while stating that he would use “information bombs” as a “legal defense against their provoked assault (sic).
When interviewed, Evans admitted that he sent the letters as part of an attempt to defend himself against “illegal charges” that the police had brought against him.
Evans claimed that they were not bomb threats and gave the officers a fact sheet containing the definition of the word “bomb”.
He claimed they were not bomb threats and gave the officers an information sheet containing the definition of the word ‘bomb’.
Court documents reveal that Evans had also engaged in other dangerous behavior, including evading police on the D’Aguilar Freeway while driving 70 mph.
On that occasion, he also telephoned police communications, claiming that he was a ‘sovereign citizen’ and that the police had no power to intercept him.
Others included speeding away from the police at over 150km/h, filming himself saying “it’s a fucking high speed chase” and tearing down Covid-19 QR banners at a Nanango IGA store while yelling that the staff “don’t had authority.” .
District Court Judge Brad Farr sentenced Matthew James Evans to three and a half years in prison, with a non-parole period of one year and two months.
During court appearances before his sentencing on December 16, Evans claimed that the courts had no jurisdiction over him because he was an “imperial crown subject”. whose grandfather swore an oath to King George V, great-great-grandfather of King Charles III.
He also threatened to sue a magistrate for “damages for fraud, treason and treason” and claimed that he could only be tried at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
District Court Judge Brad Farr sentenced Evans to three and a half years in prison, with a non-parole period of one year and two months.
With the time already served, he will be eligible for parole in January..