Others have told The Age they avoided him for years because of his lifestyle choices. One said he was bullied and would regularly miss school. A more recent image of Henry Hammond Credit:Facebook The images he projected to the world are spread across three separate Facebook profiles. The earliest, apparently abandoned last year, show a life before the "tragic and complex" case heard for the first time in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday. The posts document the birth of a child, an engagement, and an offer of a haircut to his 1300-odd Facebook friends.

A 2016 post from his then-partner to a real estate page described the couple as "easy going, sociable people, who prefer a chill vibe who like a glass of wine or more ..." He played the saxophone, spent time "hula hooping, knitting things" and "chilling outside". "I know most couples are lame but I can assure you we are not," the post said. One woman who knew him described him as a "happy go lucky fellow", until as recently as the summer of 2017, but whose life fell apart some time later. "Apparently at one point he thought he was Jesus," she said.

"From [that summer] on, apparently something happened. I don't know, he became psychologically dislodged." Henry Richard Hammond Credit:Facebook In 2015, he posted a link about "magic mushrooms and the healing trip". Another link was to an article about marijuana and spirituality. His more recent projections on social media show a man interested in Nordic mythology. His hair is long and a scraggly beard reaches his chest. His most recent Facebook profile picture was posted on May 17. His lawyer, Bernie Balmer, told the court Mr Hammond had been previously diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and there were possible diagnoses of delusional disorder and autism spectrum disorder. He was taking Ritalin and other medications Mr Balmer said.

Mr Hammond had previously lived in north Sydney suburb Allambie Heights, as well as Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. He has been in Melbourne since at least 2017, but he was known to travel. Another former friend, who met him at a festival about a decade ago and occasionally saw him at parties, said "he was always a strange boy". "He never seemed totally all there. [He] had a strange distant look in his eyes." Henry Hammond. Credit:Facebook Prosecutors initially applied to have 15 weeks to pass on the brief of evidence to Mr Hammond's lawyers, because police were awaiting the results of a pathology report and a review of CCTV footage.

Magistrate Donna Bakos granted investigators 10 weeks to pass on the brief of evidence.