Enraged ex loaded gun and held it at Flinders woman's head, police allege

Loklan Dorling, 23, of Flinders, shared a heated Facetime call with his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend Sunday about 10.30am, a week after the pair had ended their eight-month relationship.

The woman has told police she saw Dorling growing enraged, pushing over his property and punching things, and that she thought he was "having a mental breakdown".

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The woman ended the call and several others that followed after Dorling allegedly warned, "I am coming to your house, if you don't let me in I will knock the door down".

She later called him, telling police this was to make sure he was not driving to her Flinders home, and he told her "I am around the corner, you better open the door".

When he arrived the woman let him inside, telling him to shut the door behind him so the neighbours didn't hear.

Police allege an enraged Dorling then grabbed the woman by her collar and dragged her from the front door to the lounge room. From behind, he allegedly took her in a choke hold, reached under his jumper and pulled out a small black pistol with lines on the handle, similar to a police-issue gun.

He allegedly pushed her to the ground and sat on her as she told him, "please don't do this, get off me".

Police will allege Dorling then lifted the gun up towards her, loaded it, and placed it at her head again, telling her "I am going to kill you, this is all your fault".

He then turned the gun on his own head and said, "I want you to watch me kill myself."

The tearful woman told him, "don't do it, I didn't do anything".

The encounter ended when the woman's parents' car pulled up outside and she ran upstairs.

Her dad chased Dorling up the stairs and repeatedly ordered him out, before he left.

Police arrested Dorling at his Flinders home shortly before 2pm. They seized a video, filmed on his mobile phone June 30,s howing him holding a gun matching the one described.

Defence lawyer Stewart Holt told Wollongong Local Court magistrate Roger Prowse his client would be "very vulnerable" if he were left in custody, due to his youth, clean criminal history and other factors.

"He's been diagnosed as a person with an intellectual delay who was in special classes at school," Mr Holt said, adding Dorling had been diagnosed with ADHD and was the recipient of a disability support pension.

Magistrate Prowse placed Dorling under house arrest, ordering him not to leave his mother's Horsley home unless in her company.

"'In the company of' means within arm's length. You listening?" he said.

"Yes, sir," Dorling replied.

"It's somewhere between there, and there," the magistrate added, holding one arm then the other outstretched.

Dorling faces charges of possess offensive weapon with intent to commit indictable offence, use carriage service to threaten to kill, assault and intimidation.

The matter returns to court November 26.

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