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Alan Adnan: Driver in Claremont Jetty police stand-off gets bail but ordered to stay in psychiatric ward
The man accused of driving a Jeep off Claremont Jetty during a tense police stand-off has been granted bail but will only change psychiatric wards for now.
Alan Adnan was swarmed by tactical response group officers some three hours after police began trying to negotiate with the 32-year-old at the western suburbs landmark in May.
It is alleged he had driven erratically on Walter Street — hitting a bin then a 57-year-old woman's car — then demanded a USB charger cable he spotted inside her vehicle while threateningly brandishing a tyre iron and ranting.
The Bull Creek man is further accused of climbing onto the bonnet of her car and striking the windscreen, then ramming a police car that blocked him in after he drove onto the jetty.
He allegedly reversed it before driving towards a police boat and plunging into Freshwater Bay.
In a bizarre Perth Magistrates Court appearance the next day, Mr Adnan vigorously waved and smiled at family members in the public gallery, shouted 'objection' to parts of the police prosecutor's version of events and claimed: 'I was drugged by a meth addict'.
'My car was taken from me then then they off,' he yelled.
Three passengers had apparently been inside the car before the dramatic scenes on the jetty.
In the same court on Thursday, Mr Adnan's lawyer said that due to the 'circumstances surrounding' the incident, his charges of armed robbery and criminal damage 'may not remain as is'.
'I will just leave it at that,' the lawyer said.
At the first hearing, the police prosecutor said additional charges of reckless driving and threats to do an unlawful act were being considered.
Mr Adnan was remanded in custody at the high-security Frankland Centre within Graylands Hospital and appeared calm in his videolink to the court on Thursday, thanking the magistrate when she explained his bail conditions.
The court was told the Mental Health Tribunal had met on Wednesday and extended his involuntary treatment order until September, which could be revoked if his treating psychiatrist deemed it unnecessary.
A community treatment order, with restrictions, will be the alternative in that instance.
Mr Adnan was told he would be transferred to a locked ward in a civilian hospital in the next day or two.
He is not to consume illegal drugs and alcohol, and when he is not a resident in a treatment facility, he must undergo random breath testing and urinalysis, and report twice a week to Murdoch police station.
'OK, thank you, your honour,' Mr Adnan said, as his relatives again looked on from the public gallery.
The matter will return to court on July 9.
