A woman accused of helping her boyfriend and his mate torture an alleged drug associate at an Oak Flats warehouse in January has failed in her bid for bail.
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Amy Curby allegedly used a pump action shotgun to detain the victim on behalf of Nikola Trajkovski and her then-partner, Mark Reihana, who are accused of kidnapping the man from Dapto on the evening of January 3.
Police allege Reihana and Trajkovski took the victim to the warehouse that night, tied him up tortured him with tools including a drill, hammers, a gun and metal hook, in a brutal episode lasting three days.
Documents tendered to Wollongong Local Court during Curby’s bail application on Thursday claim Curby arrived at the warehouse sometime on January 4 and took over watching the ‘prisoner’ while Trajkovski and Reihana came and went from the location.
The court heard each time the victim was left with Curby he “worked hard on her letting him go”, believing she was his best chance at gaining freedom, however Curby refused to let him go.
The man was eventually freed on January 5.
It is alleged his injuries included a ruptured ear drum, a cut ear which required stitches, wounds to both shins, swelling and bruising to his entire body and ligature marks across his chest, arms and neck.
Trajkovski, Reihana and Curby were subsequently arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping offences.
In court on Thursday, defence lawyer Sue Hallman said Curby was set to be receive a community-based ‘intensive corrections order’ on a separate court matter that would require her to be closely supervised by NSW Corrective Services.
She said the level of monitoring under the order would ease any fears the court had that Curby might commit further offences if granted bail on the fresh allegations.
However, Magistrate Mark Douglass refused to release Curby, describing the allegations as the most serious he’d read “in a long time”.
The case will return to court in May.
