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10:44 EDT, 29 December 2020
A serial pest repeatedly charged with harassing women outside abortion clinics refused to sign bail documents because they would ban him from continuing.
James Joseph Dowling, 65, was arrested while holding a vigil outside Greenslopes Day Surgery, in Brisbane s inner south east, over the long weekend.
The anti-abortion campaigner was taken to a police holding cell to face a bail hearing on Monday in Brisbane s Magistrates Court.
But the court heard the Catholic Worker Movement member rejected the police s release papers because he objected to the conditions which would prevent him from going back to the protest before it wrapped up at 5pm on Monday.
News by Patrick Billings
Premium Content An anti-abortion campaigner charged with prohibited conduct within a suburban Brisbane s termination clinic s safe access zone is refusing to sign his bail documents because they stipulate he can t return to the facility. James Jim Joseph Dowling was charged while holding a vigil outside the Greenslopes clinic. The Catholic Worker Movement member today appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court which heard he had refused to sign police bail documents. Acting Magistrate Paul Byrne asked the self represented Dowling why this was the case. Jim Dowling leaving court after being charged with removing the Sword from the Cross of Sacrifice at the Toowong Cemetery on Ash Wednesday in 2017. (AAP Image/Mark Calleja)