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Bail over alleged transvestite assault
By Heather Gallagher
News.com.Australia

January 27, 2006

A NIGHTCLUBBER allegedly assaulted a transvestite after an intimate encounter revealed his true sexual identity, a court heard today.
Quentin Dwayne McCrae, 28, of Pakenham, faced Melbourne Magistrates' Court on one charge of intentionally causing serious injury at Melbourne's Southbank on January 26.

Detective Senior Constable Dale McQualter told the court Mr McCrae met a person he believed to be a woman at a club in Southbank and the pair spent a couple of hours drinking and playing pool together.

They later went to the complainant's city apartment and after becoming intimate, Mr McCrae realised he was actually with a man.

An altercation ensued during which the complainant was cut on the chest, arm and torso and received a fractured eye socket and vertebrae.

Det Sen Con McQualter said the victim was still in the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a satisfactory condition.

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He said a ceramic lamp had been broken during the fight and pieces of the lamp had been used as a weapon.

Mr McCrae told police he had acted in self-defence and showed police cuts on his hands.

Mr McCrae's lawyer Lee Ristovevic said her client would seek counselling with the Salvation Army for alcohol and anger management issues if he was granted bail.

"I doubt that there would be a person in the community that engaging in an intimate relationship with a person and then discovering their gender was not what they thought – would not have a reaction," she said.

Magistrate Charlie Rozencwajg granted bail on the condition that Mr McCrae undertake the counselling, continue to reside with his parents in Pakenham and not contact any witnesses to the case.

The matter will return to court on April 21.