Terrifying text messages footy player sent woman during horrific spree of violent rampages across Melbourne Ex-VFL player threatened to kill 14-year-old girl Threatened to bludgeon victim with an axe READ MORE: P-plater's burnouts end in disaster as he loses control, crashes into crowd and injures seven people, including two kids in serious conditions By PAUL SHAPIRO FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 23:32, 17 February 2025 | Updated: 23:39, 17 February 2025 e-mail A former footballer threatened to kill a child and bludgeon another person with an axe while on a protracted campaign of violence. Jonathon Proud, 33, fronted a Melbourne court this week where he pleaded guilty to multiple charges including assault, brandishing an imitation firearm and making threats to kill. The former Coburg Lions VFL player pulled the imitation firearm on a man while in Laverton in Melbourne's west in June last year, the court heard.
The footballer also threatened to kill the man with his 'mother's grave' and said he would 'cut off his housemate's hands with an axe'. Proud also relentlessly stalked the victim before bashing him and smashing up the man's Holden Commodore. The victim sustained lacerations after Proud's viscous attack.
Cops later arrested Proud at Williams Landing with the imitation gun and a set of knuckledusters. The court heard Proud also bashed a woman, brandished a knife and smashed up a home at Laverton on March 18 last year. Jonathon Proud (pictured) fronted a Melbourne co.