An Albury man has been told to arrive at court next time with his bag packed ready for jail over a series of threatening phone calls.
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Magistrate Richard Funston said he would have little option but to impose a full-time sentence given Ian Edward Hoare's pattern of breaching court orders.
Hoare is a convicted killer, having bashed his wife Sally Anne Lorraine Hansen to death at Seymour in November, 1997.
The 61-year-old, of Dempsey Place, initially was on a two-year community corrections order, with supervision.
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A breach of that order led to it being rescinded and replaced with an intensive corrections order, the equivalent of what was once known as a suspended jail sentence.
Hoare, of Dempsey Place, was going to fight the latest breach of the Commonwealth charge of using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend.
Defence lawyer Nicole Polyakova said she had not received all of the prosecution brief of evidence, then noted her client "wishes to plead guilty" to the ICO breach.
Mr Funston said the series of breaches was a concern.
"That's all sounding more and more serious," he said, in response to an outline from a Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions representative.
Ms Polyakova asked for a two-week adjournment for sentencing in order to obtain supporting documentation from Hoare's GP, from a counsellor and from the State Parole Authority.
Hoare, she said, had mental health problems.
Mr Funston adjourned the case to November 24.
"But he's in a pretty difficult position I would have thought. He's really facing a jail sentence in two weeks' time."
Hoare and the victim, now 53, had been in a seven-year relationship.
This broke down and an apprehended violence order was imposed in November, 2017.
With the order still in place, Hoare began a series of about 70 threatening and harassing phone calls to the victim, who was living at Broadmeadows in Melbourne, on the morning of September 30, 2018.
He also sent texts and left phone messages.
Hoare was arrested about two months later over the AVO breach and the harassment, which included: "If I see your face I'll rearrange it, or I'll kill you."
