Salim Mehajer has arrived at a Sydney court (pictured) to face two charges of breaching an AVO taken out on behalf of his estranged wife Aysha Learmonth
Salim Mehajer has arrived at a Sydney court to face two charges of breaching an AVO taken out on behalf of his estranged wife Aysha Learmonth.
The 31-year-old was arrested overnight following a car crash with Ms Learmonth’s friend in Kingsgrove at 1am, according to 7News.
No one was injured but Mehajer spent the night at Campsie Police Station with a ‘blanket’ to keep him warm.
He was pictured arriving at the Burwood Local Court just before 11.30am wearing a bright blue hooded jumper and thongs – a drastic change from the extravagant suits he often seen sporting.
The former politician’s most recent arrest came just moments after he bizarrely posted a picture of he and Ms Learmonth together on his Instagram account.
In the caption, the 31-year-old tried to explain away a previous social media asking for a ‘sophisticated personal assistant’ and claimed his account had been hacked.
‘He [sic] is a photo that I hope to make you smile,’ he wrote alongside the picture of he and Ms Learmonth.
The former politician’s most recent arrest came just moment after he bizarrely posted a picture of he and Ms Learmonth together on his Instagram account (pictured)
Mehajer has been charged with two counts of breaching an apprehended violence order and one count of dangerous driving, a police spokeswoman said.
A witness has claimed he was awoken by the crash and heard an angry man threatening to hurt someone.
‘We got woken up to what was a collision on the roundabout. There was a guy being very aggressive in the car, cursing, swearing, wanting to – saying he was going to hurt somebody,’ witness Carlos ramos told 9News.
Last week, Mehajer claimed in court that he and Ms Learmonth are still together – and their separation was nothing but a ruse.
Appearing in Sydney’s Central Local Court on Thursday to appeal his bail conditions, Mehajer was under cross-examination, and therefore under oath, when he made the claim, The Daily Telegraph reported.
‘She wants to get out of the media and she acts like she is not with me but she is with me. We are not [separated] – we are still together, we are talking,’ he said.
Salim Mehajer was arrested in Sydney overnight and charged with breaching an AVO preventing him from seeing his estranged wife Aysha Learmonth (pictured together in 2015)
Mehajer tied the knot with Ms Learmonth (pictured on wedding day together) in August 2015, in a so-called ‘wedding of the century’. It’s is believed their marriage imploded less than a year later
The news comes just one day after the disgraced former Auburn mayor’s younger sister Aisha married John Ibrahim’s nephew Sam on Saturday at the same home where Ibrahim’s bodyguard ‘Tongan Sam’ was shot in the back hours earlier.
Many of her prominent family members, including Mehajer and his parents, were not in attendance.
Mehajer and Aysha’s marriage is believed to have imploded less than a year after their August 2015 ‘wedding of the century’ that shut down a Sydney street.
Ms Learmonth reportedly packed her bags and left their mansion in Lidcombe, western Sydney, to stay with family in the NSW Illawarra region.
Mehajer faced Sutherland Court in August for an AVO filed by police on behalf of Aysha, which was extended this month.
The order was the second he had faced, after first facing court for an AVO hearing in July 2016, when police prevented him from contacting or approaching his estranged wife following a confrontation at her sister’s Wollongong home.
As a result of the court orders, Mehajer is not allowed to contact Ms Learmonth.
The property developer said in court though that he is ‘not too familiar with the AVOs’.
The news comes just one day after the disgraced former Auburn mayor’s younger sister Aisha married John Ibrahim’s nephew Sam (pictured together) on Saturday
Mehajer (pictured) told a Sydney court the pair are still married and still in contact. An AVO prohibits him from contacting Ms Learmonth
The pair are pictured attending a court hearing in 2015 after Mehajer was given penalty notices for allegedly driving an unregistered Ferrari without a licence
Mehajer told the court he was ‘not too familiar with the AVOs’ before claiming the pair were still together
‘All I know is that we do talk and we are still married,’ he said.
Last year, Mehajer threatened to rape Aysha’s parents in a vicious and expletive-ridden video message.
The shocking video obtained by Channel Nine’s A Current Affair shows the embattled property developer screaming into the camera.
‘Aysha you’ve got five minutes to give me a call,’ Mehajer says.
‘I’m going to rape your mum. Your mum and your f****** dad’.
The videos were reportedly sent after the former beauty therapist moved out of the couple’s marital home earlier this year and refused to talk to him.
Mehajer was under cross-examination as he tried to appeal his bail conditions when he made the eyebrow-raising claim
A photo of the happy couple smiling adoringly has been released by the former Auburn deputy mayor’s sister Kat Sakalaki, as Aisha and Sam sign their marriage certificate. Mehajer and his parents were not in attendance
‘I hope you die you f****** sl**,’ he screams, his voice cracking from the exertion.
Mehajer also switches briefly to Arabic in the short clip.
‘I swear on the Koran, I swear to God, I’m not leaving today,’ he says.
On Sunday, the 31-year-old shared a photograph of what appears to be another woman to his Instagram account.
The woman’s face was blocked by a monkey sticker, and a marking on her wrist was blurred out.
Underneath the image, he posted a line of red love hearts.
When Ms Learmonth was asked by Daily Mail Australia in March to clarify if she and Mehajer were still together, Ms Learmonth replied: ‘No confusion, thanks.’
She was seen at the time celebrating her birthday with family in Sydney. Mehajer was not present.
On Sunday, Mehajer shared a picture of a woman with her face covered and a mark on her wrist blurred out (pictured)
When Ms Learmonth was asked by Daily Mail Australia in March to clarify if she and Mehajer were still together, Ms Learmonth replied: ‘No confusion, thanks’
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