A MAN accused of bashing his boss with a hammer as he slept at a Gold Coast motel, told police he put a pillow over his victim's head and attacked him after eight days of being abused, a court has been told.
Geoffrey Robert Parker is charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Gary Ronald McClure by hitting him at least twice with a claw hammer in the Coomera Motor Inn on the Gold Coast, in the early hours of December 17, 2007, after a long-haul drive in a removal truck.
In his opening address to the District Court jury today, crown prosecutor Richard Pointing said police who spoke to Mr Parker on the night of the attack would give evidence he told them he couldn't take his boss's relentless abuse.
Mr Pointing told the jury they would hear Mr Parker tell police in a recorded conversation: "He (McClure) just kept abusing me, and abusing me, and abusing me for the last eight days, I just wanted it to stop and he just kept at it ... he just kept pushing me and I hit him with a hammer."
Ambulance dispatcher Danielle Cramp told the jury that according to her notes Mr Parker told her his boss was abusing him and he covered his face with a pillow and hit him with a hammer.
Mr Pointing said evidence would be given that paramedics who found Mr McClure in the motel room could see part of his brain exposed through wounds and fractures in his skull.
The jury was told the victim would be unlikely to give evidence as he was still being treated for the injuries which had left him with serious and permanent disabilities.
Mr Pointing referred to evidence that a pillow was placed over the victim's head before the attack, that a hammer was used inside the motel room, and that there were no reports of a disturbance or argument before the incident.
He told the six men and six women of the jury the prosecution's case would focus on Mr Parker's intent to cause serious harm to his victim.
"The issue is not whether Mr Parker did this but what was going through his mind at the time," he said.
The trial continues this week.
