Court Documents Reveal Phil Rudd Allegedly Threatened to Kill Contractor and Kid Daughter
Phil Rudd allegedly threatened to kill a contractor and his kid daughter in New Zealand. Court documents reveal that the AC/DC drummer made a phone call to the contractor on September 26. He was arrested earlier in November following a police raid on his home.
The papers were released after a judge’s order during a hearing on Tuesday at the Tauranga District Court. As Stuff reports, Rudd is accused of making a phone call to the victim in September and threatening to kill him and his daughter, who is under 10 years old. He also allegedly called a business associate earlier the same day to discuss what he wanted the associate to do to the victims.
When police raided his Tauranga home on November 6, they found 0.71 grams of methamphetamine and 130 grams of cannabis. Rudd was taken to police custody and charged with attempting to procure a murder, threatening to kill, and possession of cannabis and methamphetamine. The attempting to procure a murder charge was dropped less than a day later due to lack of evidence.
He entered a no guilty plea through his lawyer for all charges except for possession of cannabis earlier this week. However, he was arrested yet again on Thursday. He was spotted having an altercation with another man at a coffee shop. The other man was apparently a witness who just happened to be in the same place as he was.
AC/DC Drummer Phil Rudd Arrested Again in Tauranga – Report
“He [Rudd] was all up in the guy’s face,” a bystander told Stuff, adding that the other man at the Columbus coffee shop in the Gate Pa shopping centre was a “huge guy.” When the other man pushed Rudd in the chest, the ageing rocker fell backwards over the sign and landed in the cafe. That was when Rudd “went nuts.”
Rudd’s bail conditions were tightened following the incident, with Judge Paul Geoghegan altering the conditions to include an order not to take illicit drugs. The Australian rocker, who has been living in New Zealand since 1983, is due to appear in court in February.