A Canberra man who told a police officer he was going to murder the officer and his family is behind bars after a magistrate revoked his bail.
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Magistrate James Stewart had earlier signalled that he would sentence Jordan David Hans Gill on Friday, but decided he wanted more information on the man's state of mental health first.
But Mr Stewart said Gill, who also goes by the name Jordan Fristad, would ultimately be sentenced to jail time.
"I have formed the view that there is no appropriate sentence other than an immediate custodial sentence," Mr Stewart said as he revoked Gill's bail on Friday.
Gill previously pleaded guilty to charges of using a carriage service to threaten to kill, intimidating a Commonwealth official, and impersonating a police officer.
The Canberra Times can now reveal the extent of Gill's threats, which are detailed in court documents.
The documents show that Gill sent a police officer 11 emails within a week last year, from October 2.
They began with Gill expressing resentment towards the officer, believing he should have been rewarded after agreeing to the officer's request to meet the previous month as part of an investigation.
The level of vitriol in the emails, which included derogatory comments about the officer's weight and state of health, increased throughout the week.
Things came to a head on October 8 when Gill emailed the officer, saying: "I hope you find a reasonto [sic] arrest me, because I will grab your pistols and shoot you in the f...ing head".
The same day, he issued more emailed threats including: "I am going to f...ing murder you and your family", "I know where your sister lives and your niece", and "I'll be sure to gun you and your crew down too when I see them".
He also asked if the police officer knew what "suicide by cop" was, adding "I'm about to show you".
Gill was arrested at a Belconnen McDonald's on October 9 and spent the next 47 days behind bars, before being granted bail in November.
Gill also impersonated a police officer on three occasions, walking through the South.Point Tuggeranong shopping centre each time while dressed in a fake Australian Federal Police uniform.
Court documents say this first happened in December 2018, before Gill repeated the stunt twice the following month.
His outfit included a shirt with AFP lettering and black covert radio pieces in each ear.
Gill told police he bought the shirts on eBay for $19 each, and that he wore them "to make people think he was a sworn police officer, so outlaw motorcycle gangs wouldn't kill him".
Items later seized from Gill by police included the shirts, knives and a set of handcuffs.
Defence lawyer Todd Trotter told the court last week that Gill had turned his life around since being granted bail in November, and that the threats Gill sent the police officer were "a call for help", albeit a very poor one.
He urged against Gill being jailed, saying it would undo the progress he had made.
But prosecutor David Bloomfield said jail time was the only appropriate sentence to send a message to the community.
Mr Bloomfield said police officers were vulnerable to threats and harassment because the nature of their job meant they had to make decisions that people did not like, and they deserved the protection of the law.
Gill is now due to be sentenced on Monday.
