Ibrahim Kaddour, 26, faces eight charges including unlawful confinement, aggravated robbery, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend.

When the steelfixer applied for bail in the ACT Magistrates Court on Friday, his barrister, Travis Jackson, indicated the charges would be contested and he would try to have the aggravated robbery allegation thrown out without the need for a trial.

Court documents say Mr Kaddour and a co-defendant, Fasil Al-Mdwali, 22, moved in with their alleged victim in Lawson in April.

The following month, police claim Mr Al-Mdwali phoned the alleged victim and told him their house had been "run through".

This man is said to have gone home to find the two defendants and an unidentified male waiting for him.

"Our house has been broken into because of you," the trio allegedly yelled at him.

Mr Kaddour and Mr Al-Mdwali are accused of then punching the alleged victim in the jaw and knocking him briefly unconscious.

According to police, they then took turns holding knives to the man's throat.

"[The alleged victim] thought the males were going to kill him and accepted death," the police documents say.

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Mr Kaddour is said to have then told the alleged victim, who believed the break-in had been staged, to "go up and see what you've lost".

The alleged victim went to his bedroom, police claim, and discovered more than $15,000 worth of items were missing.

When he went back downstairs, Mr Kaddour allegedly told the man: "We are taking you to your mum's. You have no choice and I'm going to grab everything you have."

Investigators say the alleged victim was then driven against his will to a Weston retirement village, where Mr Kaddour went through his mother's room and stole about $9000 worth of the man's things.

In early June, once Mr Kaddour had heard the alleged victim's mother wanted to "get cops involved", the court heard he had sent the man a series of voice messages.

In the messages, played by prosecutor Patrick Dixon, Mr Kaddour spoke about breaking the man's neck and used numerous slurs.

The alleged victim and his mother spoke to police some time later, and Mr Kaddour was arrested in October.

He failed in his initial application for bail but, on Friday, Mr Jackson said suitable conditions could be imposed.

The barrister also cast doubt on the strength of the prosecution case by questioning the alleged victim's credibility and highlighting what he said were "some significant evidentiary deficits".

Mr Dixon opposed bail, citing concerns Mr Kaddour would commit offences, interfere with witnesses or endanger other people.

He referred to recordings of phone calls made by Mr Kaddour to his girlfriend from the Alexander Maconochie Centre.

The conversations included Mr Kaddour asking his girlfriend to "make sure there's some tic tacs for me when I get out".

Mr Dixon said it could be inferred this was a reference to drugs.

"It's the prosecution's position that they're not talking about breath mints," he said.

The court also heard that, in another call, Mr Kaddour told his girlfriend he was going to "treat my nose" the day he was released.

Mr Dixon said this was likely an indication the 26-year-old was "going to use his nose to ingest some sort of drugs".

He argued that Mr Kaddour was likely to breach bail conditions if the 26-year-old was using illicit substances.

But Mr Jackson said he had been instructed that his client merely wanted to wear a nose ring that had been taken off him in jail.

On the tic tac issue, the barrister said: "[Mr Kaddour] is a man who likes sweets."

Magistrate James Stewart refused bail for reasons including fears Mr Kaddour would use drugs, saying the tic tac reference "could be taken to be the old lolly or perhaps nose candy; that is, cocaine".

He also said the "abusive" and "immature" voice messages showed Mr Kaddour was "happy to threaten" people.

Mr Kaddour's case is due back in court in March.

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