South Australian contractor Dylan Elias Iliopoulos and his father Elias Iliopoulos have been jailed over an incident where they bashed and blackmailed a man.
Dylan was sentenced to two years and two months with a non-parole period of 10 months, while Elias was jailed for two years and four months with a non-parole period of 13 months.
In 2020, Dylan and another individual were hired by Active Recreation Solutions boss Gary Doody and assigned to a project for the Naracoorte Council.
After visiting council, Mr Doody found they were unhappy with the men’s work and terminated their employment. He asked them to send him an invoice for what they believed they were owed.
Dylan and his father Elias later visited Mr Doddy at his Edwardstown warehouse, where they held him down and forced him to transfer them $25,000.
The court heard Mr Doody was hospitalised with cuts to his face, swelling in his wrist and a rotator cuff tear in his right shoulder.
“I accept there was a genuine debt, but it was not $25,000, and the real issue here is your client went in and roughed up demanding money that he was just never owed,” Judge Heath Barklay said in early August.
“Then he lied through his teeth to the police… Assuming I accept the victim’s evidence – which, I can tell you, I do – this really was just an exercise in thuggery.”
Dylan and Elias have since been found guilty at trial of aggravated blackmail, while Dylan was also found guilty of theft after stealing Mr Doody’s phone.
Source: The Advertiser.
