A man linked to a murder in Wangaratta claims to be the target of abuse in the town and made to feel unwelcome.
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Mr Day's throat was cut and his body buried in a shallow grave next to the unit before being found about six weeks later.
Dunn was initially charged with murder but later pleaded guilty to assisting McNamara.
He was close enough to the killing that blood ended up on his hands, clothes and shoes.
Dunn disposed of a knife connected to the murder, gave McNamara cleaning products to clean up blood and showed the killer spades and shovels that could be used to bury Mr Day's body.
Dunn was released from jail last November but has continued to offend after his release, including for matters he was sentenced on Thursday.
The Wangaratta Magistrates Court heard the 62-year-old was involved in a string of offences against neighbours and others who have taken intervention orders out against him.
Dunn threatened to kill a neighbour on June 2, and again threatened to kill the man on July 30 if he didn't leave Wangaratta.
He told a neighbour she was crazy on August 7 while breaching an order, and shone a torch at her over a fence three days later, using the light to follow her.
Dunn threw rocks and oranges into her backyard on August 14 and later told another nearby resident he would smash him over the head with a beer bottle, and called the man a paedophile.
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The man's letterbox was also smashed and his tree damaged.
Dunn was arrested while heavily intoxicated and had remained in custody.
Dunn on Thursday pleaded guilty to the offending, and to breaching orders taken out by a cafe owner.
Lawyer Sally Wilson said that publicity over the slaying meant "everywhere he goes he is recognised and unwelcome".
Dunn claims to have had windows smashed at his Ryan Avenue home, stubbies thrown at him, chicken carcasses thrown over his fence, and knives pulled on him on two occasions.
He said he had been spat on, hit with a bat and that a neighbour ran him over.
Ms Wilson said the abuse was "absolutely unrelenting on him".
"The constant harassment just got on top of him, and that's why he commenced drinking again," she said.
Magistrate Peter Mithen imposed a 47-day sentence, allowing Dunn to be immediately released.
"It's up to you if you go back to jail or not," he said.
"That's all in your hands.
"I can assure you that eventually courts run out of patience and they run out of options."
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