Inside the squalid life of man accused of threatening to kill Albo

Inside the squalid life of man accused of threatening to kill Albo
Source: Daily Mail Online

The man accused of threatening to kill Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lives with his dad in a ramshackle western Sydney house mounted with security cameras, surrounded by cars piled with rubbish, and with a special enclosure for his pet ducks.

Gregory William Tait, 43, returned home to his father Gregory's modest Greystanes home on Wednesday immediately after fronting court.

He has been accused of making phone calls threatening to kill the PM.

Tait let his ducks out for a walk, along with a grey cat, and pottered around the house.

Three utes and a trailer were parked in the yard, and an animal enclosure was tacked on the back of the single storey three-bedroom dwelling.

Tait allegedly made two calls at lunchtime on December 15, the day after the Bondi shooting attack, and has been charged with two counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend.

The Australian Federal Police's National Security Investigations team raided the Greystanes home on December 16.

Officers seized Tait's electronic devices and charged him with one offence.

Tait was seen tending to pet ducks and helping out a neighbour.

The home in Greystanes was surrounded by clutter.

Three utes and a trailer were parked out in front of the home.

When approached for comment, Tait told Daily Mail to call his legal team.

After examining his phone, on January 5 police arrested him again and laid the second charge against him.

Outside Parramatta court, where Tait sought an adjournment to seek legal representation, he jeered at the media.

'I stand for Team Australia, nothing else,' he said.

At his suburban home afterwards, Tait refused to make any further comment to the Daily Mail, other than to say he was helping out a neighbour and had a team of lawyers after all.

'Call them,' he said,

and carried a basket with a garden fork and other items into the house across the road from his father's place.

Parked on the footpath next to the house was a grey $75,000 Ford Ranger ute.

In the front yard was a trailer filled with plastic buckets of the kind used to collect bottles and cans, a rusty ute piled with furniture and rubbish and another ute parked under a tree.

After about 40 minutes inside his neighbour's house, Tait emerged and began shooing his ducks towards their pen.

He is due to appear in Parramatta Local Court on January 28 on one of the charges, and in February on the other.

However, it is expected the court will schedule the next hearings together.